Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you for that clarification, Mr Deputy President. That is a point I would have made myself but I am still laughing at Senator Brandis's earlier comments about our attitude to that bauxite mine in Queensland. I think it is worth making a point about the decision of the federal government to impose a $23 tax on carbon and the suggestion that that is too high. I want to point out some of the figures that other countries, including countries that are part of the G20, have imposed in pricing carbon.

In the case of Britain, my understanding is that they will have a carbon price of between $24 and $30 per tonne. Obviously that is higher than we are proposing in Australia. In Scandinavia, Sweden is proposing a price of $130 per tonne. In Switzerland, also a modern industrial country, they are proposing a price of between $30 and—

Senator Ian Macdonald interjecting—