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
6:28 pm
Alan Eggleston (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source
This is not asking for one state to be favoured over another; it is asking for a recognition in differences, a genuine difference which exists in the way electricity is generated in Western Australia. This is a uniquely West Australian issue. We are not asking for anything unreasonable; we are asking for reasonable recognition of the fact that electricity is largely generated from gas in Western Australia, unlike the eastern states, which grandly call themselves the national electricity market model, and it is a perfectly rational and reasonable request that we are making. I think that we in Western Australia sometimes get a little bit tired of the fact that the Treasury and federal government departments do not recognise differences between our state—which is, after all, a third of this continent—and the eastern states.
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