George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given the increasing pace of job losses as revealed today, will the government now abandon its plan to rush its bureaucratic and job-destroying emissions trading system into place by 2010? Minister, when will you stop hiding behind the global financial crisis and accept that the loss of Australian jobs is the responsibility of the Australian government?