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

On this issue, Senator Milne has, in fact, touched on one of the worst aspects of the opposition's position, which is their complete disregard for business confidence and for the certainty which underpins investment confidence—complete disregard for investment certainty in the area of energy and in the area of climate policy. What we do know from businesses is that they want certainty. People have long-term investment time frames, and what we have from those opposite is a deliberate campaign to undermine that investment certainty. The issue here is those opposite would much rather play politics than see the nation succeed. They would always rather play politics than see business confidence high. They would always rather be aggressively negative than see good results on the economic front. (Time expired)