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

This debate would be a waste of time because it would come from the party of the past and it would include more misrepresentations. Let me take you to today’s misrepresentations. In question time the member for Wannon raised a question about the aluminium jobs in his electorate. I refer him to the words of Alcoa’s Managing Director, Alan Cransberg. Alcoa is the head company of the jobs he talked about. This is the truth, not a misrepresentation that has been brought into this parliament. He said:

A carefully designed carbon price can achieve both imperatives—an effective economic response to climate change that provides incentives and improvements while preserving the international competitiveness of important Australian industries—we believe this is what parliament should seek to achieve.

Why would we have a debate to listen to more misrepresentations, given that misrepresentation in question time?

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