Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask my first supplementary. Will the minister then explain how it will be to Australia's benefit to have in four years time, at the conclusion of the Obama administration, a national economy wide carbon tax the government itself forecast to be in excess of $30 per tonne when the United States, the world's largest economy, still will not have one at all?