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

The government has done modelling based on the real world. If Senator Cormann wants to talk about the real world, he might like to talk about how much more he would have to tax people to pay for the opposition's direct action policy were they ever to win government. If, as a member of the so-called economic team from that side, he wants to know about the real world effect, he might like to go out and talk to real businesses about the real world effect of the uncertainty he is demanding they live in, the uncertainty he is lobbying for and advocating for by telling people not to obey the law of the land, telling people that their permits will be torn up. That is economic lunacy and economic irresponsibility at its worst. A member supposedly of the economic team on the other side surely would think twice about advocating something so economically irresponsible.