Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

They believe in the politics of fear and this is how they deal with the politics of fear. Let me answer the Leader of the National Party’s question. What we have announced today—and I would ask the people on the opposite side who clearly have not read the announcement to do so—is a carbon pricing mechanism to start on 1 July 2012.

What we have also made clear today is that there is further policy work to do and we will be announcing as that further policy work is done. What the Leader of the National Party well knows is that we have not announced a carbon price today and, in making up figures, he is trying mislead the Australian people. I will say this to the Leader of the National Party: perhaps he should be honest enough to say to the Australian people that what the government has put forward today—

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