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
1:57 pm
Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party) Share this | Hansard source
Yes, galling. I will take that interjection from Senator Barnett. I find it quite extraordinary that Australia has to be the one leading the way for those countries that are yet to do anything about putting in place an emissions trading scheme. I am a little intrigued, colleagues, about how this is actually going to take place. Is the Prime Minister going to pop over to the US with, perhaps, a very good box of cherries from my home town of Young and knock on the door and say: ‘Mr President, I have got everything through the chamber—I have got all the legislation through—so are you right to sign up now? It is all good to go’? Or perhaps, looking from the other perspective, the President might say to his wife: ‘Gosh, I have just seen that that legislation has gone through the Senate in Australia. It’s about time I went down to my little place over here and had a bit of a hurry-up of the legislation.’ It is extraordinary in the extreme to think—
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