Senate debates
Wednesday, 25 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]
In Committee
10:31 pm
Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source
On capacity to pay? And if it is capacity to pay, who makes the judgment of the capacity? Is it by GDP? This is important. Senator Milne says it is very important. If it is going to be a couple of billion dollars I think the people of Australia deserve to know. In a couple of weeks time you will be going over to Copenhagen and you obviously have this amount of money apportioned in your budget. You are not going to go over there and try and work out the amount of money that Australia owes on the back of an envelope. You know now—and if you do not know now you should know—how much you are prepared to pay to get developing countries to join the climate mitigation process.
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