Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

My department does not have a modelling capacity, so I am not aware of any modelling being done. It clearly will be an issue that, along with all other organisations, both my department and the other areas of government will need to give consideration to. But, prior to the government both engaging in wider community consultation in the wake of the Garnaut report, which is expected soon, and developing the details of an emissions-trading scheme arrangement, it is premature for those things to be developed by my department. But clearly that is an issue, and once the process of putting in an emissions-trading scheme regime starts to unfold, then along with all other organisations the government will need to give consideration to how it deals with its own emissions.

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