House debates Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

Monday, 4 July 2011 House of Representatives

Greg Combet

Greg Combet Charlton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency

2:17 pm

to 2020. It is going to cost $720 per household for the subsidies-for-polluters policy. The Leader of the Opposition is committed to claw back the pension increases, take back the tax cuts, claw back the benefits for families. He is going to take them all back by repealing the carbon price legislation. Our country faces a serious significant challenge with the threat of climate change. As a political figure in this country, it is hard to imagine a more irresponsible misrepresentative campaign than that that has been conducted by the Leader of the Opposition over recent months and in coming days it will be exposed. (Time expired)

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