House debates Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

Wednesday, 15 June 2011 House of Representatives

Wayne Swan

Wayne Swan Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer

3:12 pm

I am arguing the case for a carbon price which is the least costly, most efficient way of pricing carbon and the best way to ensure that we have a prosperous economy. That is what I am arguing and that was once argued by the shadow Treasurer. Only last year he said:

I was acting industry minister in 2002 when Peter Costello, David Kemp and I argued … in the Howard cabinet that we should have an ETS.

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