Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Brown, I thought I made it very clear to you that there is a whole-of-government approach and that ministers will be consulting within their portfolios on a whole range of issues associated with the scheme. You left out, for example, the minister for families, who I know has an interest in these issues as well. I have met with environmental groups; I told you that in my primary answer. The reality is that ministers across a range of portfolios will consult as is appropriate on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. If Senator Brown’s suggestion is that somehow there is something wrong with government consulting with industry to ensure we get this important economic reform right, we will simply have to part company there, because we on this side understand the substantial economic reform— (Time expired)