Senate debates
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Customs) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Excise) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — General) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2]
Second Reading
9:51 am
Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
We have members of the opposition interjecting from a position for which, I remind them, they take the responsibility. It is on their shoulders. They take the responsibility, along with members of government, for this failed prescription we have before this Senate.
We do not have the amendments which may or may not come from a government-opposition get together. We know it will further weaken it, but it is going to be marginal. What we have here is a failed prescription. What we have from the Greens is a prescription commensurate with responsible scientific and economic advice and common sense. We will stand by it and we are pleased to be giving that option to this parliament and the people of Australia.
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