Ian Macfarlane (Groom, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Can I endorse the words of the minister and thank him for the assistance that he, his office and his department have offered to the opposition on what is, as he said, an extraordinarily complex issue, an issue which will underpin by far the biggest proportion of the low-emissions strategy for the Commonwealth government of Australia as we go forward from here.

As the minister said and as I am sure my colleague said, this is an extraordinarily complicated process. It is a process that spans back to the time when I was the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources. It is a process that, if we are not careful, will span into the time of the next minister for resources. The member for Batman and I do not know when that will be—

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