Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (14:04): I thank Minister Macklin for the best word to describe that performance—desperate indeed. Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! The House will come to order. Ms GILLARD: At some point the Leader of the Opposition needs to stop insulting his fellow Australians. At some point he needs to stop insulting the intelligence of his fellow Australians. Australians overwhelmingly believe climate change is real—that is, they are in front of the Leader of the Opposition. The Australian community has moved past him. They believe climate change is real. To those Australians who believe climate change is real and who want to act now, we say to them, and I say to them as Prime Minister, let's act in the most effective way we can, the cheapest way we can, the most efficient way we can and the best way we can to cut carbon pollution. What the Leader of the Opposition says to them instead is to try to stoke fear. Mr Pyne interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Sturt— Ms GILLARD: Just this morning, in the last six or seven hours, we have had members of the opposition out at the doors engaged in a campaign of deceit trying to pretend to the Australian people that the government is funding the COP 11 campaign advertising that went to air yesterday. Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Casey— Ms GILLARD: They knew that was not true, but they were out on the doors engaged in a campaign of deceit trying to say to the Australian people that the government was funding that advertising. Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition— Ms GILLARD: Then we had the shameful display of the member for Murray trying to pretend to the people in her electorate that jobs were being lost at a local food manufacturer because of a carbon price, and they were going to New Zealand because of fears of a carbon price in Australia. What she forgot to tell them in that campaign of fear is that New Zealand, under a conservative prime minister, has an emissions trading scheme. That is, in the last six or seven hours—we do not even have to go further back than that—we have had the opposition out there knowingly speaking untruths to try and generate fear in the minds of the Australian community. Well, the Australian community believe climate change is real. And, because they believe climate change is real, we will work with members of the Australia community to put in place the best mechanism to cut carbon pollution and tackle climate change—by, as I say, putting a price on the biggest polluters and giving money to Australian families. The Leader of the Opposition wants to rip money off Australian families and use it to subsidise the biggest polluters. We on this side will keep talking about the facts and the best path forward for this nation.