Senate debates
Monday, 30 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
12:14 pm
Christopher Back (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source
The economics is not decided. You know that, Senator; I know that. We have the opportunity to get that resolved. Certainly we want to see action on climate change. Anyone who says that we do not is an idiot; a complete idiot. We want to see sustainable environmental development in the future. This is not it.
Let me ask a question about the issue of timing and information. Go back to the horrific and regrettable bushfires in February this year. Why was my colleague so roundly criticised in the royal commission? Was it because of time? No. We all knew that time was not on his side. Was it because there was a fire and there were deaths? No. The reason that he was criticised—
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