Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I welcome the supplementary question because what has become clear in the last day or so is that the Liberal Party have no capacity under their plan to protect Australian taxpayers from meeting $11 billion worth of costs, which they say they are going to pay to big polluters and will be driven by the polluters’ greed. What we have done is fully costed our ETS. We have costed what the impact will be on taxpayers, on working families, and we have provided a compensation package. There is no compensation package under Mr Abbott’s plan. There is an admission that $11 billion of taxpayers’ money will be expended—