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

of $720 a year to a per household cost of $1,300 a year. We will do it in the most economically responsible way. It really amazes me that they can get the shadow minister to get up and ask these questions. It just goes to show how now throughout the opposition they have all succumbed to the Leader of the Opposition's culture that you will do or say anything in order to try and get political advantage, even if you said directly the opposite thing yesterday. I refer to the shadow minister's statements at a press conference of 10 July 2011:

I’ll just make a brief point. Our emissions reduction fund is a very simple proposition. We will purchase the lowest cost abatement wherever it may occur …

In his National Press Club speech of 10 February 2010 he said:

… a tonne of carbon is a tonne of carbon. And that is all the planet knows.

That was said by the shadow minister. Never was a truer word spoken.

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