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

This is a government that is focused on developing the new clean jobs of the future, the low-pollution jobs of the future, as core to our meeting the challenge of climate change. That is why, in addition to the Clean Energy Initiative announced last night, we have, as you know, a target to increase fourfold Australia’s use of renewable energy by 2020. And, of course, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, which will be introduced to the other place tomorrow, will for the first time place a price on carbon. I would remind those opposite that their own adviser, in another one of the reports they commissioned in a vain attempt to get over their own scepticism on the issue of climate change, said that central to the way forward and central to building the low-pollution economy of the future is a price on carbon. That is what Mr Turnbull used to think, that is what Mr Turnbull used to say, before those opposite got to him. (Time expired)