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

This went through the coalition party room. This is one of those interesting cases where, if you do not like the outcome, you try and wreck it. That is what is occurring here. They are trying to wreck not only this agreement and this policy but their own party. That is how desperate they are to avoid acting on climate change. That is how desperate they are: they are avoiding going forward with their own policy. John Howard, the former Prime Minister, went to the last election saying, first, that climate change was real—that is different to you, Senator Bernardi—and, second—