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

I can only repeat to the senator that this whole package was released late last year, that the Treasury analysis that supported it was presented and that we have provided for compensation to Australian families and pensioners. We also committed to an annual review of the household assistance package so it would be adjusted in the budget context. That is how the compensation scheme is designed to work. We have had two attempts to get this legislation passed by this parliament and you have refused to support it. Quite frankly, a debate about the detail could have occurred then, but the key point is this: under the government’s scheme we seriously tackle climate change, we compensate Australian families and we make the polluters pay. Mr Abbott’s scheme does not cap pollution and does not compensate families; it makes taxpayers carry the burden. (Time expired)