Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

Well, the question was, 'Are you going to do something?' We're doing more than something; we're meeting and exceeding our international emissions reduction targets. We are meeting and exceeding our international emissions reduction commitments. The Labor Party and the Greens want us to go harder in a way that would hurt the economy, cost jobs, send jobs overseas and damage the opportunity for families around Australia to get ahead in a way that doesn't help address global greenhouse gas emissions, because it will just shift them into other parts of the world where emissions will be higher. The Labor Party and the Greens: it is open to you to pursue policies that will hurt families and do nothing for the environment. We want to do the right thing by the environment in a way that is also sensible for the economy, for jobs and for working families around Australia.