Ian Macfarlane (Groom, Liberal Party, Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources) Share this | Hansard source

The debate has moved on, but Labor is stuck in the past with a scheme designed in Europe in the last century. This government, the Howard government, continues to support Australia’s world-leading innovation, which can and will deliver real solutions to the greenhouse gas challenge and see them deployed right across the world. This government will continue to back innovative, practical measures on climate change, because taxes and targets do not deliver; technology does.

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