Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move the following motion:

That this House calls on the Prime Minister to be upfront with the Australian people and small business about the impact of his great big new tax by:

(a)

Accepting the challenge of the Leader of the Opposition to debate the so called “greatest moral challenge of our times”, namely the impact of climate change and the benefits of the Opposition’s policy of direct action on climate change rather than the Governments great big new tax on everything as envisaged by its Emissions Trading Scheme; and

(b)

Allowing the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition to be allocated thirty minutes each a total of one hour, to have that debate immediately in the House of Representatives.

Leave granted.

If this, as the Prime Minister says, is the greatest moral issue of our time, it deserves to be debated.

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