Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I am aware of the report. I have read the relevant parts of it. I can confirm again for Senator Di Natale that we don't support the proposition that Australia should consider a $75 to $90 a tonne carbon tax. We think it would be bad for our economy. It would be bad for the environment. All we would end up doing is shifting environmentally more efficient production into other parts of the world. We would shift jobs and shift emissions, and the world would be worse off at the same time as leaving the Australian people worse off. That is not our way to approach these things. That might be the Greens way, but that will never be our way.