Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given that Australian businesses collectively already have to pay five times as much carbon tax over the next three years as all the businesses across 30 European countries, does the government now recognise that its carbon tax, even when linked to the EU ETS, will make Australian businesses less competitive against their European competition?