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

For all of those reasons, Mr President, and because we on this side believe that it is our responsibility to do something about climate change. We do not believe it is responsible for us to sit here in the Commonwealth parliament and say: 'This is too hard. We don't want to do this. We'll ignore all of the risks, economic and environmental, that scientists have given this parliament time and time again.' We believe that it is the responsible and right thing to do.