Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

Somebody else spoke in the Senate last night. What was it that Senator Milne, a co-architect of the carbon tax, had to say not about what we were doing but about Labor's own amendments to change the name of the carbon tax? Senator Milne just last night said:

… this ridiculous position where we have the Labor Party pretending that what they want to move for is emissions trading.

In other words, Senator Milne was saying it is a name change. It is nothing more than a name change. Why does that matter to the people of Western Australia? It means that, in the fight for the Western Australian Senate, it is a fight for the carbon tax, which is what they are arguing for—

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