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

I'm happy for the clock to be reset. Senator Hanson-Young, the point I was making before the interjection is that this was some time ago. The Prime Minister, obviously, in 2005 was responding to the circumstances as he assessed them in his role then. We have made the same assessment now, and that has resulted in the policy that we took to the election of very substantial reductions—very ambitious reductions—in Australia's emissions between now and 2030, as well as a net zero commitment and the policies that will transition the Australian economy. Unlike the Greens, and I appreciate you have a different view, we actually have to do the hard yards of implementing that. We are an emissions intensive economy, and changing our economic base, our economic structure, in the way that this implies is a tough thing to do. It's also the right thing to do for the future, for future jobs and the sorts of jobs that will thrive in a net zero— (Time expired)