Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I was informing the House not only about how successful we are, having met our first Kyoto target and beaten it by 128 million tonnes, and how we are on track to beat our 2020 target but also about how we have ambitious 2030 targets. But what I was also pointing out was that it is okay for the member for Melbourne to put his sandals up on the seat, sip his soy latte, sit in the streets of Brunswick and say that it is the end of coal—because he put out a press release saying it was the end of coal—and to celebrate the loss of jobs in the Latrobe Valley for the people of Hazelwood. Shame on him, when he joined with the Labor Party when they were last in government to pay $5½ billion to those brown coal power stations to keep their doors open.

The member for Melbourne does not understand that you need a smooth transition, one which encourages the resources sector and understands that coal is an important part of the energy mix. If you want to hear a summing-up about the Greens, you only have to listen to the former Prime Minister Paul Keating, who said, when he launched the member for Grayndler's election campaign:

I’ll tell you about the Greens … They are a bunch of opportunists and trots hiding behind a gum tree trying to pretend they’re the Labor Party.

They do not have to pretend they are the Labor Party, because the Labor Party has now joined them.

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