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

The best policy for Australia is putting a price on carbon. Ever since I have understood the science of climate change, I have believed that and that is what we have done. I refer the Leader of the Opposition to my statements during the 2010 campaign about the need to put a price on carbon, and we have. But if the Leader of the Opposition wants to get into this game then how does he explain his statement:

We don't want to play games with the planet. So we are taking this issue seriously and we would like to see an ETS …

How does he possibly justify his months and months and months of reckless fear campaigning with that statement? How does he possibly justify that he went to the 2007 election as a member of the Howard government standing on a platform of an emissions trading scheme? And he sits amongst colleagues who are all—

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