Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

How many reports did the previous government receive on the need for (a) an emissions trading scheme and (b) halving the renewable energy target? I have lost count. Year in year out the reports came in over the 12 years that they were in office, but our hyperactive member for Flinders obviously prevailed so decisively in the internal deliberations of the Howard government that what was produced by legislative outcome was one big fat zero. In 18 months this government has framed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation, which is now in the Senate, and renewable energy target legislation, which is now in the Senate as well.

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