Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

They hate these sorts of slogans or zingers. They want to have a serious debate. What the honourable member does is put up a premise which obviously we do not accept, so the answer is: we do not accept that premise. The commitments under the Emissions Reduction Fund are capped; the honourable member knows that. So this is just an attempt to get a little grab of himself with a slogan. If he really cared about the issue, why wouldn't he actually make the case, put the analysis in a debate and take on the environment minister—actually take on his counterpart. But no. He is only interested in his little bit of the question getting on the television. Really, the Australian people want us to deal with these issues seriously. If he wants to make a case that the government's policy cannot achieve what we have said it will or that it has not achieved what we have said it will, then he should make that case rather than throwing out there absurd numbers which he knows have no basis in reality.

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