Senate debates

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

2:53 pm

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

I will seek to answer the parts of that question I can. I will answer what I think was the first part of the question. The question related to pollution being free. I think the economic point is that unless you price pollution there is no incentive to reduce it. It is a very simple economic point: unless you price pollution there is no incentive to reduce it. Currently there is no incentive—

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