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

The government's carbon pricing scheme is an internationally linked scheme. That is absolutely true. The reason for doing that is to ensure that Australian businesses can buy carbon abatement for the least possible cost. The Leader of the Opposition, to the extent that he has bothered at all to deal with a policy in this area—and because of his negativity he has not really dealt with a policy solution—has said that they would not internationally link any arrangements if he were ever Prime Minister. That is a recipe for ensuring that Australian businesses pay a greater cost per tonne of carbon pollution abatement than they would under an internationally linked scheme. The Leader of the Opposition is known for wandering around criticising the government's carbon price as too high. What, of course, he has never told—

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