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

To be fair to the member for Bradfield, we know there was a debate between him and the shadow cabinet about this policy, and he didn't agree. What we don't know is what the member for Hume contributed to that debate. The member for Hume, when announcing the policy—which is exactly what the government is implementing—said:

… this is just about making sure that Australian manufacturing has the right incentives in place to reduce emissions … This simply provides a carrot for them to be able to reduce their emissions beyond that baseline.

That's what the member for Hume said in 2020. In 2021—

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