Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I'm happy to withdraw it if you think it causes offence, but I make the point that the Greens political party seem to believe that if people don't agree with them somehow that makes the people who don't agree with them hypocrites or insincere. We are not. We are sincere, but, unlike you, we recognise that it's not just a motion in the Senate or a speech; it's the hard yards of transforming an economy which has been fossil fuel dependent—and it has. We have benefited from that, but we now have to change, and that is not easy.

As I have explained to the many colleagues I have met with over the Pacific, we know the change that we have to require, and we are committed to it. We are committed to it and we are genuine in it. (Time expired)