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

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Can I thank the member for Kooyong for his exquisitely timed question, given we are on the issue of international linking and on the fact that the opposition have committed themselves to a scheme that would shut Australia away from the rest of the world and mean that Australian businesses and Australian taxpayers paid more of a price for moving our nation to a clean energy future and that, in particular, would put a burden of $1,300 on every Australian family because they would turn their backs on the rest of the world.

Throughout the minister for climate change's answer, the Leader of the Opposition was chanting: 'Where are these markets? Where are these markets? Where are these markets?' Let me answer the Leader of the Opposition—

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