Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Hanson, we do think that responsible levels of migration are consistent with economic growth. We also believe that renewables are demonstrably a cheaper energy source than those which I have outlined—so coal and nuclear—which explains market behaviour over this last decade. It is the case we will have to transform our economy, and we will have to ensure that we, both, reduce what we put into the atmosphere and offset that which we cannot reduce. In that regard, the position the Albanese government is putting is where the mainstream economies of the world are. It is where the majority of the global economies are, and— (Time expired)