Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Australia joins those countries around the world that are taking action on climate change. That is why Greg Combet, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, announced on 9 November that Australia is ready to join a second commitment period of the Kyoto protocol.

What is unbelievable from those opposite, if we want to talk about believability, is that they opposed income tax cuts and family tax cuts for business. Tripling the tax-free threshold, tax cuts for more than seven million people, was opposed by those opposite, unbelievable if you are a family; and a company tax cut—unbelievable if you are a company. Increasing the Medicare levy surcharge threshold—