'Australians would expect a government of grown-ups to get on with the job and talk to people of goodwill to make sure that we have a good, solid climate bill,' climate change minister Chris Bowen said.
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen is confident the government's climate bill will become law.The federal government is "very, very" confident its climate bill enshrining a 43 per cent emissions reduction target will pass the Senate.
It is headed to the Senate where it will first go to a committee inquiry, which will hear evidence on the proposal's impacts.The committee is due to report back to parliament by the end of August before it goes to an upper house vote. "But I'm very, very confident it will pass the Senate. Very, very confident," he told Nine Network on Sunday.
Opposition Nationals leader David Littleproud said while the Coalition believed in reducing emissions, it did not believe legislation was needed to do that.
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