Senate debates
Monday, 30 November 2009
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Customs) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Excise) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — General) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2]
In Committee
1:46 pm
Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source
As I was saying, the Liberal Party are saying to the Australian people: ‘We know we went to the last election under John Howard promising action on climate change. We know we went to the last election promising to introduce an emissions trading scheme, but we didn’t really mean it. And now what we are going to do is run as much of a scare campaign as possible, or a delay campaign or any other form of campaign, to avoid action on climate change even if that requires us to tear apart our own party and change leaders.’ That is clear for everyone in Australia to see. I think the single question that they can never answer is: what is the action on climate change that they would support? There is none. They will play with a whole range of policies that they know will not actually reduce emissions.
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