Greg Combet (Charlton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency) Share this | Hansard source

All of this is important in this debate because what we have seen from the Leader of the Opposition is lots of aggression and not much courage when it really counts.

It is worthwhile reflecting on the words of Prime Minister, John Howard, to the Melbourne Press Club on 17 July 2007, when explaining the need to act on climate change through an emissions trading scheme because these are in the tradition of the Liberal Party. He said:

Australia brings formidable assets to this challenge: an educated, can-do and adaptable people a modern; flexible economy; world class scientific expertise; deep global engagement and an enviable reputation for institution-building and reform … No great challenge has ever yielded to fear or guilt. Nor will this one.

I could not agree with it more.

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