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

They laugh and they scoff; anybody they disagree with they scoff at. They scoff at Farmers for Climate Action over there, who have called for these reforms and pointed out that rural and regional drivers have a lot to gain from these reforms. I also point out in relation to price impacts, which I was asked about by the honourable member, that the FCAI, the peak group which has made claims in this case in terms of price impacts, clarified their position on the weekend and said, 'This is not a forecast on price impacts,' which is a considerable change.

The fact of the matter is this: as we've said before, it is time for Australia to catch up with the rest of the world. These standards were introduced in the United States in 1975, in Japan in 1985, in China in 2005, in South Korea in 2006, in the European Union in 2009, in Canada—a country with similarities and differences to Australia—in 2011, in Mexico in 2013, in India in 2014, in Saudi Arabia in 2016 and in New Zealand in 2023.

It's also the case that those opposite could ask us why we aren't going further, because the model that the minister for transport and I are proposing has lesser standards than those in New Zealand and Europe.

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