Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

We're starting the year with lies and misleading statements in Labor questions and, of course, lots of hysteria from the Australian Greens. The facts of the matter are that our government looks forward to working with the Biden administration. We've already had outreach on a number of levels, including between the minister for emissions reduction and the climate change envoy. We particularly look forward to the fact that President Biden, during his campaign, emphasised the importance of investment in transformative technologies, because, as we have identified, you don't achieve emissions reduction outcomes without those transformative technologies—transformative technologies that have driven the remarkable take-up of renewable energy in Australia and that will achieve change elsewhere, including in other countries around the world who we need to see achieve emissions reductions as well if the world is to successfully tackle this issue together.