Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

he went on to say, 'This provides an incentive for businesses to reduce their energy costs.' Now, how did the member for Hume cope in shadow cabinet? Did he say, 'Fantastic; great move; well done,' or did he say, 'Terrible; bad move; not well done'? What did he say? What did the member for Hume say to shadow cabinet? He's against the policy he himself announced.

This tells us a number of things. We know the opposition is divided. We know they're dysfunctional. We know they have a worse climate policy now than they had under the member for Cook—which takes some doing. It also tells us this, and this is very important: they know this is good policy, but they're opposing it. They do not care about the national interest. If they don't care about the national interest in opposition, why would they ever care about it if they are ever in government?

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