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

In fact, I will just take you to this quote, Senator Brandis:

… you can’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions unless you have a price on carbon.

We will play guess who, shall we? It was Mr Howard in May 2007.

We on this side believe that the facts are important to this debate, but what we have on the other side, aided and abetted by their state colleagues, is a campaign of deceit and misinformation. We saw earlier this week the 34-page document, the talking points of the coalition: page after page, Mr President, of lies, lies and more lies, misinformation and misrepresentation. This set of lies is on top of a campaign of months of negativity from the Leader of the Opposition, who has nothing of any value, of any truth, to say in this debate.