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

Well, you know that. You know that. I think everyone knows that the current laws aren't working for business, and they certainly aren't working for the environment. We know that the minister has been engaged in discussions. It's regrettable that to date we haven't seen the coalition engage responsibly on this. What I would say to Senator Hanson-Young is that I think the Prime Minister has made clear his views on some of these policy matters, and that is the position of the government, and if you don't wish to be a responsible party in how you deal with these issues, then, yet again, what you will see is good Labor reform which is not able to proceed because the Greens are taking an extreme position and the coalition are taking the oppositional position, the negative position, that they always engage in.