Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I remind Senator Williams that the impact of the carbon price in the transport industry is a couple of years away, because we have ensured that in 2014 we will look at the impact and deal with it at that point. It is important to recognise that this government is acting on climate change—unlike the deniers on that side of the chamber, who do not believe in climate change, who do not want to drive to a clean energy future, who do not want to ensure that we can have a clean energy future, who want to continue to say: 'This has no impact. This is not going to happen.' This government has put in place assistance for households but also assistance for business. And who opposed that? Those opposite opposed it. They opposed having assistance for business. They opposed—