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

I thank Senator Cadell for the question and for his interest in this area, and I hope that his new-found enthusiasm for the Biden administration might extend to a renewed commitment to renewables, to a belief in climate change actually being something that we need to respond to and deal with, to a belief that an energy transition matters. There are a whole range of things that this administration is engaging in that your party room refused to engage in, refused to do, refused to support. In fact, for nearly a decade in government it ensured that there was no policy reform, no energy policy and no progress when it came to these issues, all because some people over there didn't believe that climate change was a thing.