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

He has just explained the circumstances of the meat industry and some of the opportunities there are for people in the meat industry because of the way we put a price on carbon and because of the way the programs that we have set up to work with this industry are able to work with meat producers. If the member is directly concerned about the circumstances of this meat producer he should be referring to the minister's answer and to those opportunities.

To the member who asked the question: I am not surprised to receive this question from him, when he has said in this House in the past that there is no evidence that CO2 in the atmosphere controls the climate—that is, he denies the science; he denies that we need to do anything about carbon pollution. We know that there is a healthy constituency of deniers—

Mr Pyne interjecting—

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