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

(—) (): With respect, Senator, that last comment is a throwaway political comment that actually has no basis in fact, and I don't think anybody looking at our policy approach would say that. I'm sorry. I know that it's part of the political strategy to try and make the two big parties the same, but, unfortunately, here the facts do get in the way. What I have said very clearly, and what has been said by the Prime Minister and, more recently on this issue, the climate change minister, we look to what the best way, the most efficient way, is to transition our economy to meet what are very ambitious—and they are ambitious. And it might be that, in some world, you could theoretically somehow get to net zero or a 43 per cent reduction or two in excess of 80 per cent renewables in the grid by just announcing it, but we have the hard work of making sure we deliver policies that enable that transition at the lowest cost to Australian— (Time expired)