The Prime Minister referred to an interview of mine with Mr Laurie Oakes on 27 July 2008 as being inconsistent with the remarks I made on Saturday at the Liberal Party’s federal council. In the course of that interview, I said emissions trading is not ‘an end in itself’:

The objective is to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions. There are many ways you can do it … different approaches will be taken by different countries … The ETS is a means to an end. It is not an end in itself.

I also said:

… the Emissions Trading Scheme that is on offer from Labor and the way Labor is constructing it—