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

burdens on Australian businesses. The member who asked the question, when she is speaking to the people at that sporting club, may well, too, want to explain the costly burden she and the Leader of the Opposition have planned for the families that use those sporting facilities—a bill of $1,300 per family—as a result of the opposition's inefficient, wasteful and not credible carbon plan. She might want to explain that.

If she wants to tell the members of this sporting club the truth, then what she will tell them is that as a nation we do need to reduce carbon pollution, that as a nation we should do that in the cheapest possible way, that as a nation that means putting a price on carbon—

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