Helen Haines (Indi, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I second this bill, the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021, and I do so secure in the knowledge that I'm standing up for the economic future of regional Australia. Over the past few weeks and months, members of the National Party have made all sorts of outrageous, fear-mongering claims about the future of our regions. They've called for $250 billion of government money to pay big fossil fuel companies to continue to pollute. That's $30,000 for every regional Australian that we could be putting towards hospital beds, more doctors in the bush, the NBN or the elimination of blackspot mobile phone problems. But the Nationals' big vision for regional Australia is subsidised coalmining. They've said that there are no jobs in renewables. But there are thousands of good jobs in renewable energy right now, across Australia.

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