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

It is a shame. I think Senator Abetz did not take my advice and continued to ask his prewritten supplementary question which had been carefully crafted in the tactics committee, because they had found a quote from 2005 and they had thought, 'This is the killer. We'll ask them about something the Prime Minister said in 2005.' So it is seven years ago and somehow this is important to Australians; somehow this is of vital interest to Australians. What we know is this parliament has introduced a price on carbon that will set up Australia for dealing with the threat of climate change and the need of our economy to adapt to that. We have acted, we have delivered good policy and the Australian people and the Australian economy will reap the benefit of that for many years—and we know that the Liberal Party will never ever rescind that legislation.