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

Thank you very much in directing my attention to the second part of the question that the member asked me. The second part of the question would lead people to conclude that somehow having a price on carbon, advocating a price on carbon, does not mean that you care about Australian jobs. Well, let me quote a statement from someone who had the aspiration to have ‘the most comprehensive emissions trading scheme anywhere in the world’. Would the member assert that the person who said that did not care about Australian jobs? Then let me go on and quote words by the same person, who said:

No great challenge has ever yielded to fear or guilt. Nor will this one.

And then went on to say—

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