Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I say to Senator Cash that we know where the climate change deniers are; they are on that side of the chamber. Those on this side of the chamber—all of us—are concerned about jobs, particularly in this time of global economic crisis. That is why we are working so hard to strike the right balance on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. We on this side also understand that we have to not only protect the jobs of today but prepare Australia for the jobs of tomorrow. We need to build a lower pollution economy that will be competitive in tomorrow’s world. We on this side of the chamber absolutely understand something those opposite have never understood: that in government you have to lay the groundwork for the economy of the future. Unlike those opposite, who saw the way forward on that as stripping away wages— (Time expired)