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

I thank the senator for his question and for the opportunity to talk about the way in which the Premier of Victoria has quite clearly jumped aboard Mr Tony Abbott's scare campaign when it comes to climate change. This is the Premier who is on the public record in October 2008 saying 'we support an emissions capping and trading scheme as the least costly way of responding to global warming'. Yet another in the conga line of hypocrites in the Liberal Party on this issue—