Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

It may not have been apparent to Senator Abetz and the opposition but the government has always said that a carbon price is the only mechanism which will ensure Australia can meet its bipartisan emissions reduction targets. That has not changed. We spent the whole of the last parliament trying to put in place a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme that allowed us to meet those targets by putting a price on carbon. The Australian people have voted for a new parliament, which will have to work in new ways, and in order to try to pursue—