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

In relation to the other modelling, yes, the government took all relevant modelling into consideration before making its decisions. In relation, again, to the assertion about government policy, this discussion is a bit like groundhog day. We do not make government policy on the basis of state government policy which may or may not be in place and private contracts which are commercial-in-confidence to which the Commonwealth is not a party. We make judgments about what is the best policy position from the Commonwealth’s perspective, and that is what we have done.