Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer her to her words of a few moments ago in question time when she said:

It is simply wrong to suggest that the Treasury modelling of the government's Clean Energy Future program depends upon the United States putting a price on carbon by 2016.

I also refer her to this statement from chapter 5 of the modelling document:

The modelling assumes comparable carbon pricing in other major economies from 2015-16 …

My question is: since when did the US cease to be a major economy—or is she just misleading the parliament?

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