‘Some men just want to watch the world burn’: Christine Milne on Coalition Climate Policy
Senator MILNE (Tasmania—Leader of the Australian Greens) (21:56): What we have heard from the minister is that the only basis that he can provide for a claim that we will achieve a five per cent emissions reduction target, as pathetic as that is, is that he is ‘extremely confident’. And he is the finance minister for this nation? What we have just heard is voodoo economics. Just because the finance minister is confident does not mean that anybody actually thinks that that is going to happen. In fact, there are more of us who think that some men just want to watch the world burn, and I would suggest that we are dealing with one of them here this evening.