Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

It is clear that Senator Bernardi is struggling in this more complex debate when he has to move away from simple chants and simple low politics. The reality is that the government is working at trying to deal with the fact that global warming requires us to look at how we limit carbon emissions and how we transform our economy to address those issues. It is also the case that the national government has to look at revenue from mining and work out whether we have the balance right. What we did prior to the last election was to negotiate with the major miners an MRRT which allows the Australian community to get a proper return from the use of their minerals. We think that is an important thing to achieve. We look forward to bringing it before the parliament, and I look forward to the opposition getting serious and supporting us.