Senator GALLACHER (South Australia) (15:20): As I move around doing my duties as a senator throughout South Australia, going to various country regional centres and attending street corner meetings, we always encourage the voter—or the attendees at those meetings—to engage in the carbon tax debate. We need to raise it in certain areas. Far from being an issue at the forefront of a lot of voters' minds, they are not frightened and they are not buying the scare campaign of the opposition. There is a growing body of people who want to leave a better Australia for their children and grandchildren. They understand that coal fired electricity power stations are not the cleanest way into our future. In my own state of South Australia, we are leading the way in clean energy options. There is, as I say, a continual fear campaign. Mr Abbott says no to everything. He fails to engage in any legitimate debate on clean energy options and simply tries to scare the electorate through a well-coordinated, well-repeated, incessant fear campaign about destroying jobs. The Treasury modelling shows that the economy will still grow and that average incomes will continue to grow and that carbon pollution will fall, which I suppose is the achievable outcome we are seeking for our Australian environment. We will see investment of about $100 billion in renewable energy and hopefully South Australia will continue to lead the way in that renewable energy. Under former Premier Mike Rann's leadership we have led the way. We have certainly led the way in renewable energy with wind farms, geothermal and the like. These things have really been at the heart of our leadership in South Australia, where we produce something like 50 per cent of the renewable energy of our great nation. Senator Boswell is looking for a model in which he can put his economic data, a tame economic professional to put his details in and produce some trillions of dollars worth of results. These things are simply not going to happen. We are going to rely on the Treasury modelling. They proved through the GST that they could do it and they have proved that they will continue to do it. Senator Boyce: The modelling is a secret. Senator GALLACHER: The modelling is not a secret. We are simply going to rely on the proven experts in Treasury who did the modelling for the GST and who will do the modelling for the carbon tax. The modelling shows that the economy will continue to grow strongly. It shows that average incomes will continue to grow strongly. It shows that jobs will continue to grow strongly; in fact 1.6 million additional jobs by 2020. And it certainly shows that the carbon pollution will fall, and all Australians will ultimately reward the party that delivers this. It is in the interests of our children and our children's children that we take this action. If you are looking for support in the community about climate change, look at the solar schemes that are oversubscribed. Look at the people who have gone out and put their hard-earned cash into those solar panels to produce their own renewable energy source. Australians do believe in this. They put their own hard-earned cash on the table. They have gone out, paid up to $10,000 and whacked panels on their roof. They are producing green, renewable energy and they are very proud of that. Most of the schemes have been oversubscribed. Yet the other mob tell us that people do not want a bar of renewable energy, they do not want to make the environment cleaner and greener, they want to continue down an old-fashioned path. Well, time is up. We have really got to look to the future for our children and our grandchildren. The community is onside, despite the scaremongering of the opposition. Quite frankly, the opposition used to be onside under their former leadership. So it is without any shadow of doubt that we can continue on this historic path. (Time expired)