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

We welcome the response of the Business Council and peak groups today in response to this government's ability to get its agenda through—something which has not been seen for the last decade. It's important, as the world decarbonises, that Australia gets its share of the economic action. It was not happening before May last year. Business as usual would see emissions go up and opportunities lost. Business as usual is not acceptable to this government. We will work with the business community to see emissions down and jobs up, and that's exactly what we are doing.

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