Sophie Scamps (Mackellar, Independent) | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. Two of our nation's most respected economists, Professors Sims and Garnaut, have today put forward a bold plan they say can lower global carbon emissions by at least six per cent, would deliver much cheaper power bills and would supercharge a new green export industry here which would set up Australia's prosperity in the new global economy for decades. With the worst of the coalition climate wreckers of the Nemesis era all but wiped out, isn't it time a carbon levy was back on the table?

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