Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources) Share this | Hansard source

Very good; thank you. The response to climate change is a complex one. It requires an open mind, and it requires practical measures. What the opposition is giving us now is some kind of cramped political theology. Nobody is allowed to doubt. Sceptics are to be banned. Anybody with an open mind is to be banned. Anybody who considers a solution is to be banned. What do the International Energy Agency say about the responses needed to reduce greenhouse gases? They say that the measures will be energy efficiency, clean coal and nuclear power, in that order. What does the opposition do? It takes the third biggest contributor to reducing greenhouse gas emissions off the agenda totally. The government will consider—

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