Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I say to the members of the National Party: if you're going to ask the government about climate and energy policy, how about you be honest with the people you represent that climate change is real and that people in rural and regional Australia will pay the price for that climate change. And policies which delay action will see people in rural and regional Australia—farmers who've already seen their productivity fall because of climate change—pay the price. And future generations in regional Australia will pay the price. And people in rural and regional Australia have a lot to benefit from well calibrated policies to see jobs and investment. And the Morrison-Joyce government told the Australian people that net zero was good for people in regional Australia, and, since then, they have walked away from the people of rural and regional Australia and are betraying them by their actions.

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