Ted O'Brien (Fairfax, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

On costs, again we see that what has been put forward by the Labor Party is based on deliberate untruths, and every single MP in this House knows it. Every time you use the amount '$600 million' you are exaggerating the CSIRO's costings—by a multiple of five—the coalition's costings and the independent modelling. That's independent modelling, by the way, that this government has failed to land a glove on because they know it's accurate. In fact, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, when asked about the independent modelling's first report about his own costings, which were $640 billion, stood at this dispatch box and actually said what a good report it was. Be very careful about the lack of honesty when it comes to the Labor Party on this topic.

That leads me to the second issue raised by the chair, and that is the issue of timing. Again, we had evidence after evidence come before the committee demonstrating that the coalition's plan on timing is accurate—

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