Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

The Gillard government is committed to helping small business to be part of the move to a clean energy future. The carbon price mechanism is not a tax on households or on small business. It is a price that will be paid by around 500 of our largest polluters for each tonne of pollution they produce. Small business will not have to measure or monitor their carbon pollution or fill in a single form as part of the carbon price reform, which means no red tape.

The carbon price will create new opportunities for a whole range of small entrepreneurs and business owners across many industries. For example, opportunities will open up to develop services and products in new clean industries such as renewable energy generation, carbon farming and sustainable design, not to mention information and other technology that facilitates energy efficiency within businesses and households and transport logistics, just to name a few. (Time expired)