Senator CHRIS EVANS (Western Australia—Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:01): Clearly Senator Abetz has run out of questions. Here we are on Tuesday on the first fortnight of sittings and we get from Senator Abetz the sort of tactics he used in student politics all those years ago. It is the sort of mature contribution to public policy for which he has become famous. When I talk to Australians they are actually interested in public policy and in what the government is doing to assist them in having their kids schooled, in having access to quality hospitals and in the capacity of the economy to provide jobs and opportunities for them. Those are the things that they focus on. They also want government to deal with the issue of climate change. They want us to deal seriously with the challenge that climate change presents. This government is taking on all those key policy challenges, be it education, be it health, be it climate change or be it the important issue of management of the economy so as to create jobs and opportunities for Australians. We continue to be focused on those issues. Through the package of bills that have been introduced into the House of Representatives today, we have sought to give effect to a comprehensive response to the challenge that climate change presents to the Australian economy. We have sought to deal with this really tough policy issue in the same way we did in the previous parliament—in a way that at that time had opposition support. But now we find they want to take the low, cheap politics road, they do not want to engage in the public policy debate and they have no interest in debating the issues. But this government is focused on good public policy and we will continue to prosecute that policy in the parliament of Australia, as we should.