Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

The agricultural sector in the basin employs about 90,000 people. I would hope that, as a good senator from Queensland, Senator Boswell would have some regard to the many thousands of people—60,000 people, based on one Queensland government publication—who are supported by tourism and the industries associated with the Great Barrier Reef. These are the sorts of issues that Senator Boswell, who is a well-known climate change sceptic, does not wish to address. I note the interjection previously from Senator McGauran, which confirms yet again that the sceptics are on the ascendancy on the other side. We have designed the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme very carefully so as to ensure support for industries in this nation.