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

They are not interested in actual words, because it stops their fear campaign. Listen to his actual words. This is what he said:

In relation to energy, there is absolutely an argument that says there needs to be a carbon price so we can have natural gas base load generation in Australia … So I think a carbon tax around energy is a really good thing to do at the moment and will have a big effect in reducing carbon.

The party of misrepresentation are asking for a debate so they can continue their misrepresentations.

We should learn from these two misrepresentations that the Liberal Party is incapable of telling the truth on climate change, is incapable of telling the truth on carbon pricing and is incapable of doing anything under its current leadership—the embittered, leftover leadership of the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Treasurer. They are the embittered leadership, the sour people, who cannot accept the result of the last election and the fact that we are in government. The only thing they have left—they have not got any ideas, because they get their ideas from One Nation emails; they have no other source of ideas except what One Nation sends to them—is a fear campaign. They are in a shambles. Mr Speaker, look at the shambles that they are in. They are trying to get a backbencher to take a point of order. Here we have the fear campaign.

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