Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Professor Garnaut has produced a very good report, a quite important set of findings to deal with dangerous climate change which emphasises just how important it is to our future economic prosperity that we reduce carbon pollution. He makes the point so strongly that the cost of not acting is far greater than the cost of acting and, therefore, we as a nation need to come to grips with this fundamental challenge. We will come to grips with this fundamental challenge because everybody on this side of the House believes in the science of climate change, unlike those opposite. Everyone on this side of the House knows we have to do something about it. Those on that side of the House do not understand it whatsoever.

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