Senate debates

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

2:34 pm

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

Let us understand what the question is proposing. The opposition is suggesting that another reason to oppose this bill, to which they are already so implacably opposed, is because of something which may or may not happen between 2020 and 2050. We know something that is likely to happen in the decades ahead if the world, including Australia, does not act on climate change—that is, climate change will worsen and the economy in this nation and globally will be hit by that. Those on that side—

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