Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

We continue this policy for many of the same reasons that the former Prime Minister, John Howard, went to the 2007 election with a promise to put a price on carbon. We continue this policy for many of the same reasons that his hand-picked task group, led by Peter Shergold, recommended an emissions trading scheme as the most economically efficient way to reduce pollution and to tackle climate change.

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