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

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Those words that I used, ‘the most comprehensive emissions trading scheme anywhere in the world’ are the words of former Prime Minister John Howard. In saying those words, why was John Howard then insisting on a price on carbon the way I am insisting on one now? I would suggest it is because we went through exactly the same thought processes, which is: climate change is real. I believe John Howard accepted the science.

See this speech in context