Greg Combet (Charlton, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change) Share this | Hansard source

At the same time that the member for O’Connor is asserting that a majority of the coalition party room is opposed to emissions trading, the member for Goldstein is reported in the Australian today saying that a vast majority of coalition MPs and senators in fact support amending the CPRS. Who is to ever know who is right about the coalition political and policy position on this issue? If it is a majority of coalition MPs that support negotiating amendments with the government, it must be a very silent majority indeed. They should take responsibility on this critical public policy issue and put forward specific amendments, propose them to the government and negotiate.

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