Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to mark the third anniversary of the election of his government. I refer to his leaked caucus speech of 24 June and I ask: does the former Prime Minister believe that a carbon tax as proposed by the current Prime Minister is more likely to meet the climate challenge than the emissions trading scheme that he proposed and that she advised him to dump?

Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

What differentiates this government from those opposite is that we believe in putting a price on carbon; those opposite do not. We accept our national and international obligations; those opposite do not. We will continue our efforts in this respect while those opposite pull up the white flag.