Greg Combet (Charlton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Flinders for his questions. I appreciate that he has a number of apprehensions, and I hope that I can dispel them to the extent appropriate this afternoon. Sometimes the coalition believe their own propaganda, and I think that is part of the problem we are dealing with here. They have gone around the country—and in particular the Leader of the Opposition—to regions like the Latrobe Valley and terrified the living daylights out of people and created enormous apprehension. I have experienced the same in my own region, which is a coalmining region, where, because the Leader of the Opposition has done the most unconscionable thing and stood before people and said to them, 'You are going to lose your job,' it has created enormous apprehension—

Mr Chester interjecting—

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