Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

There is an emerging convergence here, I notice, between One Nation and the Greens political party in dismissing the importance of international frameworks. That is true. It's sort of interesting. But I think most Australians want to see credible action on climate change. They want to see international progress, because they accept the science. I know you and your colleagues don't accept the science. I know that most of these characters over here don't accept the science, but science is a real thing. I know you say it's not. I say to you: it is an incontrovertible fact that increased carbon emissions in the atmosphere are causing temperatures to rise. That is a real question that hard-headed people must engage with in an adult kind of way. That means that our industries are up for the challenge— (Time expired)