Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I will answer the Leader of the Opposition first using these words:

No great challenge has ever yielded to fear or guilt. Nor will this one. Human ingenuity, directed towards clean technology and wise institutional design, remain our best weapon.

Who said that? John Howard said that. In respect of those who decried measures like carbon pricing, using markets or denying the science, he, former Prime Minister John Howard, said:

They are the real climate change deniers because they deny … rational, realistic and sustainable policy solutions.

I ask the Leader of the Opposition: how does he parade himself before the Australian people claiming to be dressed in the clothes of a Liberal leader?

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