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

The government is of the view that climate change is the challenge of our generation, and the government is of the view that the best way to deal with our response to that is through the policy framework that I have outlined earlier. So that has been the approach that the government has taken. That is the approach that we took to the Australian people, where we laid out a very ambitious plan to reduce emissions, to increase renewables and to transition our economy.

I'd make this point. This is not just for the reasons of the imperative of climate change. It's also for the imperative of future jobs. The vast majority of the global economy has moved to net zero by 2050. What that means is that to thrive in the decades ahead our children and grandchildren will have to work with industries that are of value in that economy. (Time expired)