Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

The government have released some of the most extensive modelling ever undertaken in Australia. In the previous parliament the modelling which was released was, I think, the largest modelling exercise ever undertaken. In addition we subsequently released updated Treasury modelling and that shows that jobs will continue to grow. Let us remind everybody: Treasury continues to advise that we will continue to grow our economy, our incomes and our jobs and reduce Australia's domestic emissions from what they otherwise would be. No amount of rhetoric from the other side will disguise the simple proposition that the economists in this country—the Treasury and respected economists—are telling governments and this parliament that pricing carbon is the most efficient way to deal with the challenge of climate change.