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

so that they generate less carbon pollution. We will use the revenue paid by those big polluters to assist Australian families. We will use it to protect Australian jobs. We will use it to fund programs that tackle climate change.

The Leader of the Opposition stands for a proposition that the member for Wentworth has rightly described as one that is expensive for taxpayers and will not work. It is the kind of policy you put forward when you do not really believe in climate change and your main aim is to have a policy that you can fool people with and you can bring to an end very quickly if you were ever required to implement it.

Look at the contrasts in our policies. We will require big polluters to pay and give some of that money to Australian families—

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