House debates Carbon Pricing

Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders

Wednesday, 2 March 2011 House of Representatives

Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister

3:04 pm

Let me keep explaining it to the Leader of the Opposition. If we want the next generation of Australians to have a clean energy economy and the jobs that come with it, if we want the next generation of Australians to have an environment that can sustain them, then we need to cut carbon pollution. How do you do that? By putting a price on it. What does putting a price on it do? It means that businesses that have to pay that price—

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