Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Let me say, the Howard government made a statement and it said something like this: we will put an ETS up but we will not let our exporters suffer—and I am paraphrasing it—and we will be doing it in sync with the rest of the world. That is the difference between your ETS and Howard’s commitment. Howard’s commitment was something like that. I do not have it in front of me, but it said we will not ruin our exporters and we will do it in sync with the rest of the world. You have gone well and truly beyond that. You are affecting our exporters and the rest of the world has not joined in, so do not come to me and say, ‘You went to the electorate with a similar ETS.’ We went to the election with an ETS that was highly qualified. We were not going to hurt our exporters and we were going to do it in sync with the rest of the world. You have not done that, so it was totally different to yours.