Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am pleased to speak in support of the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Financial Viability) Bill 2011. It has been great to hear from the previous speakers, particularly the member for Bradfield and the member for Farrer, the old free marketeers when it comes to kids in child care. But strangely, when it comes to our kids' future in a carbon constrained environment, they are not free marketeers. They do not believe in the market when it comes to pricing carbon. They have a completely different approach. They are free marketeers when it comes to sending our kids off to child care, but when we talk about our kids' future, the future of the planet, which every reasonable person understands is what we are talking about in terms of carbon pollution, there would not be a person in this House—oh, I beg your pardon; there would not be a reasonable person—who takes a scientific approach to it who would not understand that we were going to have—

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