Here is the good Doctor Brendan Nelson stressing the importance of developing considered and robust climate change policy.

Our very strong view Kerry is firstly that you’ve got to make sure in implementing an emissions trading scheme that it’s done responsibly, methodically… This is an extraordinarily important policy debate for Australia… It’s been a very important part of our process to go through the process of considering the policy of climate change.

Here is the good Doctor Brendan Nelson developing the Liberal Party’s version of considered and robust climate change policy.

In the party room… some backbenchers were angry that no written policy was presented to the meeting — which then proceeded to draft one. Mr Hunt and Ms Bishop wrote on a whiteboard as Dr Nelson dictated.