Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We did put a price on carbon, as any sensible government should do. Obviously, this government's current scheme involves taking taxpayer money and paying big polluters which is like a tax and is not going to be effective at all. We ratified the Kyoto protocol. We increased the RET. We ended the Pacific solution. We brought in legal equality for same-sex couples. I particularly thank former Attorney-General Robert McClelland for that and wish him well in his new job at the Family Court. We scrapped the ABCC. We obtained a seat at the UN Security Council. We created marine parks. We raised superannuation—which was going to go all the way to 12 per cent. We brought in a price on mining so that in times of profit we were able to deliver—

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