Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

First, again, the senator has misrepresented what I said. Second, unlike you, Senator, we actually believe that it is our responsibility and our mandate from the Australian people to act on climate change. I know that you are still split on the issue of net zero. I know that Senator Cash, as leader in the Senate, defied her own leader to press for an abolition of net zero in their party room. It is quite an extraordinary thing that a member of the leadership group of the alternative government doesn't back her leader.

But we on this side believe that ensuring that we have a sensible economic approach to getting to net zero is the right thing for our economy now and the right thing for our economy in decades to come, and it is a mandate that we have from the Australian people.