Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

My experience on this very significant and complex matter is that there is a range of views about climate change, the degree of climate change and the causes of climate change right throughout the community. That is true of our party and I assert, without fear of contradiction, that it is the position in the Labor Party because I know that to be true. The difference in the Liberal Party is that we are not an authoritarian party. We allow Liberals to express their views, we allow Liberals to say what they really think, unlike the Labor Party. And we know who the sceptics are in the Labor Party but they are all, understandably, not prepared to express their views for fear of being crushed by this authoritarian Labor machine which does not allow freedom of expression upon fear of being expelled from the party.