Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Really, there are no real alternatives on that side. The only alternative is more risk, more uncertainty, more blocking. They are good at wrecking action on climate change. They are good at saying no to reform, but they do not know how to reform. They do not know how to build. Perhaps they ought to take some heed of what Mr Turnbull has said in recent times and is on the record as saying: first, that their policy to deliver a five per cent reduction is ‘a recipe for fiscal recklessness’. Senator Bernardi ought to take note of Mr Turnbull saying he is supporting a policy that is a recipe for fiscal recklessness. But we also have recent revelations in the media that suggest Mr Abbott was even prepared to hint he would have supported a carbon price if that had meant he could form government after the last election. What an indication of the political opportunism of those opposite. (Time expired)