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

You sit behind a climate change denier. John Howard asked for a comprehensive report from Peter Shergold about the best way of pricing carbon. When he received it he read it and responded to it rationally—something that the opposition is now incapable of: reading, thinking and responding rationally—and, having done that, he determined that the best way forward for this country was an emissions trading scheme. He said the nation should price carbon. I believe the nation should price carbon, and that is why we will bring legislation to the Australian parliament to do just that.

I understand the member opposite will follow the Leader of the Opposition in a fear campaign, but I suspect in his heart of hearts he is actually one of the members sitting over there who watched with dismay yesterday. I wonder when he got his Liberal ticket—

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