Cory Bernardi (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Many of us take our promises seriously. I know Senator Sterle is interjecting. No-one takes anything he says seriously. I am not sure that he takes his own promises seriously. But the point is this: we are entrusted to speak up for the Australian people. When we go to an election we take a policy platform there and people vote for it. I know that people like Senator Sterle were elected on the basis that they were not going to support a carbon tax. I know that was the case because his Prime Minister, the one that he so warmly embraces as leading this country boldly into the future—