Madeleine King (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

it's very popular—isn't noxious. It absolutely is not. Of course, dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide through our climate is dangerous. I'm not a climate denier. There are people in this building that might be, and I think there are fewer and fewer every year. It is not noxious in the small amounts to which I referred to in that interview. Dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide cause global warming, and that is why this government has taken steps immediately upon becoming elected to introduce measures. We've passed many bits of legislation—the safeguards mechanism, the climate targets, the vehicles emission standards scheme which is going through the parliament right now.

I would remind the leader of the Greens political party exactly what his party has done in the past. It was the Greens political party that came into this parliament and voted against the CPRS many years ago.

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