Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

Well, I have already, in a previous answer, had to go back to the past and talk about Work Choices; now we are here talking about the climate change sceptics on the other side. Really they do not want to talk about fighting climate change, and there is a good reason why they do not want to talk about fighting climate change: because they do not actually believe in it. They do not believe in climate change. They do not think it has been caused by man-made effects. When you listen to some of the senators on the other side you hear them say, ‘Climate change is a natural phenomena.’