House debates

Thursday, 28 October 2021

Questions without Notice

Climate Change

2:07 pm

Photo of Scott MorrisonScott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. What I was referring to is that we have a bill in the Senate right now that is seeking support. They are seeking to disallow the regulations—that's what the Labor Party is seeking to do—for our policies, which include $72 million to support electric vehicles and hydrogen vehicle charging infrastructure, $52 million for microgrids in regional Australia, $20 million to look at how we can make heavy trucks more fuel efficient, and $47 million to help heavy industry reduce their energy consumption. The Labor Party has voted against these policies seven times. I'm asked about the issue of trust, in the question. I saw this quote today:

If I was a coalminer, a power generation worker, a manufacturing worker and wanted to look at the bona fides of the ALP … about how they deal with just transition, if you looked at what happened to Victorian timber workers—

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