Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

What Senator Birmingham is asserting is essentially that no-one else is doing anything. That is essentially what he is asserting, and we know that that is wrong; we know that that is not true. We know that a price on carbon has existed in Europe since 2005. We know that the United States is now investing more in clean energy than in conventional sources. We know the action that China is taking, we know that India is taxing coal, but those on the other side persist in perpetuating a myth. (Time expired)