Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

This government will continue to push hard for the most ambitious outcome possible from Copenhagen. As we have said, that needs to be an agreement for action. We welcome the comments overnight of President Obama that any deal at Copenhagen must have immediate operational effect. I am interested to know whether those on the other side, who always reference the United States in this debate, will now come in behind President Obama’s own call to action at Copenhagen. They will not, because what we know is that there are some people in the Liberal Party and the National Party—