Ian Campbell (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

I think they are very good principles for a national wind farm code, and they are in stark opposition to Senator Carr’s comrades, who want to ensure that you roll over local communities and put wind farms where they do not want them. What the Labor Party need to understand is that if you are serious about climate change you have to be serious about wind energy, solar energy, energy efficiency and fuel switching. You have to be serious about clean coal. You also have to be serious about all the technologies. And you have got to have a policy on nuclear energy and uranium mining that is consistent, not a typical Mr Beazley policy of walking on both sides of the street and hoping you can get away with it—because you cannot. If you do not have a consistent policy on energy security and climate change, you cannot be taken seriously on climate change—and that is why you are not taken seriously on climate change.