Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Labor's policies are about taxes. Labor's policies aren't technology not taxes. Labor's policies are about mandating people, not respecting their choices. Labor's policies aren't about getting the balance right between affordable energy and reliable energy and ensuring lower emissions. Labor's policies are just a blank cheque to cut emissions and make Australians pay for it. That's what Labor's policies are. We don't support their approach. We support an approach which is very different, that is technology not taxes, that ensures that people's choices are respected and that we do get the balance right and that we consider carefully the impact of these things on rural and regional Australia. And that's what we've been doing. Those opposite seek to mock that. They seek to mock the very serious process that the Liberals and Nationals have been going through to ensure that we can look people in rural and regional Australia in the eye and tell them we're doing everything both to protect their jobs and secure their jobs for the future. You cannot rely, in rural and regional Australia, on the Labor Party to protect your job when it comes to addressing climate change. You cannot trust them to do that, because they signed up to net zero by 2050 without a plan, without a cost, without a 2030 target, without anything. They are a vacuum when it comes to what it will cost to determine the commitments that they want to put in law. They will outlaw the prosperity of rural and regional Australia. But I will leave the remaining 40 seconds to the minister.

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