Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I don't believe that even the Labor Party would be suggesting that we walk away from all coal as an energy source for Australia. If that is Labor's position, I'd be very interested to hear it. In the meantime, today is the day we discovered that Senator Marshall is concerned about socialism. This is a great day in Australian politics. Let's mark that occasion. Let's join with Senator Marshall in promoting more sensible economic policy. The approach that we are promoting is one that does the right thing by the environment in a way that is also economically sensible, and does the right thing by working families around Australia. The Greens clearly don't care about working families around Australia; we do.