Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The difference between the Rudd Labor government and the former government is that, in addition to focusing on the economic needs of families and the Australian people, we are also prepared to tackle those broader global challenges like climate change. What we have done is to go about providing a comprehensive response to climate change. On coming to government we immediately ratified the Kyoto protocol and signed Australia up to that international action to tackle climate change. We tackled the problem on the Australian front by producing the white paper process which has allowed us to design a carbon pollution reduction scheme that will look to reducing Australia’s carbon pollution, to helping build a cleaner, greener environment and to growing environmentally sensitive industries. (Time expired)