Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

At the same time as that, the government has been working with industry and with the environmental movement to get the balance right. It is not an easy thing to get the balance right because, when you talk to business, the one thing they do want in terms of the CPRS is certainty. That is what they want. They want certainty. That is what the government is working to provide them. The current plan—and this might surprise some of the senators on the other side—actually has the support of the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Industry Group on the one side and, on the environmental side, the WWF and the ACF. So we have struck the right balance to project jobs.

At the same time, this is not just about the CPRS. We are also working to create green jobs—new jobs in environmentally sustainable areas. That is the future. They are the jobs of the future. The sort of stuff you are seeing over in the United States with President Obama is what we are working on. In my own area, the stimulus package and the energy efficiency package in relation to pink batts and gold batts will also create jobs. (Time expired)