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

It is true I do not get a vote inside the Liberal Party room—guilty on that, Senator. That is true. Of course, we know that Senator Bernardi’s contribution to this important policy debate has been to ensure that he disrupted a leadership that actually wanted to do something about climate change—your views on this are well known. But I have to say I find it difficult to know which aspects of the question you in fact want me to answer. If the question is about the renewable energy target, I have answered that question—that was an issue inside your legislation which we fixed up. If the question is about the remainder of the energy efficiency programs, certainly in relation to those bits which are my responsibility I have given a ministerial statement on Green Loans to the Senate. The reality is that we on this side are determined to deal with the issues in the energy efficiency programs that have occurred. Minister Combet has made that clear and I have made that clear. (Time expired)