Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

As I said in response to the question from the Leader of the Opposition before, on both of the matters he raised, neither my position nor that of the government has changed. Can I say in response, though—to the man who stood in this place and assassinated the member for Wentworth in order to obtain the leadership of the Liberal Party and then proceeded to vote down this government’s emissions trading scheme and has the gall to stand at the dispatch box and provide a moral lecture on climate change—what moral planet does he live on? Having himself destroyed bipartisan consensus on emissions trading, having assassinated the member for Wentworth on the basis of that and having said just before that emissions trading must be passed before this parliament, he stands there as if he occupies a position of moral principle. I would suggest to the Leader of the Opposition he reflect again on climate conditions in Palestine in the year 32 AD.

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