Zed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party, Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much, Senator Lambie. I think I largely addressed your second supplementary in the answer to your first supplementary, so I don't know that there's much I can add and there's certainly not much that I could add that would satisfy you. But what I would say is this: when it comes to taking action on climate change, reducing emissions, we always have to take a very practical real-world approach, and that is what this government has always sought to do. It is about taking the issues seriously, but it is also about recognising that, if we don't work for global action with countries right around the world, if we don't work to support existing industries, and if we don't make sure that we have strong baseload power to deliver, then our economy will go backwards, we will see jobs shed, and it will all be for nought—if we are sacrificing our economy and not actually seeing it move the dial when it comes to the environment. So we take a very responsible approach which balances all of these realities, as laid out in the earlier answers.