Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

get to grips with the fundamentals of this debate, and the fundamentals of this debate are: climate change is real; it is caused by human activity; we need to reduce carbon pollution. The best way of doing that is to price carbon and where we want to get to is a market emissions based trading system where the price of carbon is set by the market and where the economy has a cap on the amount of pollution it can generate. That is the way forward. The member for Wentworth is very perceptive about these things and the Leader of the Opposition should listen to his advice and the advice of economists around the world. That is the right thing to do.

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