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

Those opposite, who consider themselves the standard bearers of the Howard era, might want to recall, first, that Mr Howard went to the last election promising action on climate change and an emissions trading scheme and, second, that even the former Prime Minister has acknowledged that the legislation before the chamber is very similar, or not all that dissimilar, to the legislation that he would have implemented. But that does not matter, because those opposite have included in their ranks people so extreme that even John Howard looks like a greenie.