Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday we in this parliament did what parliaments before had been singularly unable to do. After 35 parliamentary inquiries, after scientific evidence had said for years that we needed to do something in relation to climate change, presented with a bipartisan climate change target of cutting emissions by five per cent by 2020, we had been able to do something that had eluded both sides of politics: set in place a series of measures that would deliver to this country a cleaner energy future. We would do it in a way that would ensure that the biggest companies in this country, with the biggest—

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