Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

As the relevant minister, I find that quite helpful. I find the fact that this government legislated it a good thing and the fact that those opposite voted against it deeply disappointing but part of a pattern of behaviour.

The point I was making is that crises, whether international or otherwise, are a chance for both sides of the House to provide leadership. That's the point I was making that they were so offended by. As someone who sat in this House now for a while, through COVID, as shadow health minister, I know that. I know when I worked with the then health minister that that was an opportunity for both sides to provide leadership. Those of us who held opposition office at that time know that. As I said before in that answer—and I stand by every word of that answer, and I stand by this part—the fact that you choose to make politics in a crisis says more about the opposition than it does about the government.

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