Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

There is always a great barometer of how things are going on the part of those opposite: it is called ‘the Hockey volume barometer’. The louder Joe yells you know the worse it is getting.

On the question of clarity on this we had to go, again, to what the current Leader of the Opposition had to say about this. I understand that it was in an interview today. There you go; it is from the Liberal Party of Australia. If you want some clarity about what their position on emissions trading is, and their position on what the impact of energy prices would be—because that has been the other thrust of their questioning this week—the Leader of the Opposition said this in response to a question:

The fact of it is that if we go, as we will, as we must, as we will and we will pay a price as a nation as we should—

This interview was this morning. I actually had them double-check the transcript to make sure this was accurate—

for a genuinely global response. One of the consequences of that will be an increase in the price of energy—electricity bills for households and petrol and fuels that we use ...

In other words, their position is—

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