Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I was arguing the case for a carbon price, something that was believed in by some of those opposite only a short time ago. The shadow Treasurer had this to say only last year:

I believe the market mechanism is the best way to price a commodity. I am a true believer in markets.

That was only last year, to Lenore Taylor and David Uren. That is what the shadow Treasurer said then, but he has done a lot more. He said this on ABC Radio National on 6 March:

We were the initiators of an emissions trading scheme. We went to the last election promising to introduce an emissions trading scheme in 2011-12. We put the fundamentals in place.

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