Pat Conroy (Charlton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

This is an incredibly important matter of public importance, and I thank the member for Port Adelaide for bringing it to the House. Let me first deal with a couple of facts, because facts are very inconvenient for those on the other side. Under the first two years of the fixed price emissions trading scheme that we introduced when we were last in government, we saw a 10 per cent fall in emissions from the national electricity market—the equivalent of taking four million cars off the road. We saw 130,000 jobs added to the economy in that two-year period. Whyalla was not wiped off the map; it still existed.

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