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

I was simply pointing out that whether one is talking about carbon pricing and small businesses, large businesses, households or anyone in the Australian nation, if you are going to address carbon pollution you need to work out the cheapest and most effective way of doing it. I agree with the member for Flinders when he says that perhaps the most important domestic policy decision was the decision of the Howard government that Australia would implement a national carbon trading system. He then went on to urge the government to take up that proposal for putting a price on carbon. Given his words then endorsing carbon pricing, I am a little surprised to get his question today.

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