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

I remind the Senate that the Labor government has a consistent policy on the issue of the threat of carbon pollution in this country. For the past five years we have argued that carbon pollution has arisen as a result of a contribution by human activity. We have argued that we need a response that allows the economy to move to a carbon reduced future. We have argued for that in this parliament as a government throughout the last term. We had three goes at establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. The Liberal Party abandoned the bipartisanship and the leadership on that issue prior to the last election, but this government will continue to argue for a proper response to the threat of carbon pollution and an effort to price carbon, transform our economy and meet the huge challenge that this increased carbon pollution presents to our economy and to our society.