House debates Questions without Notice
Carbon Pricing
Ms Julie Bishop Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition
2:28 pm
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her many statements in this House and elsewhere that she has always been in favour of pricing carbon. How does the Prime Minister reconcile those statements with the revelation in Tales from the Political Trenches that she wrote to former Prime Minister Rudd, in 2010, saying that she vehemently opposed fighting another election on introducing a price on carbon?
Julia Gillard Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister
2:29 pm
In answer to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition's question, I have dealt with these matters on the public record on many occasions. I stand by my statement. Isn't it interesting that here today we have the opposition, with their tired old fear campaign, having a fiddle with the rear-vision mirror as they look backwards, as we lead this nation to a future of opportunity and opportunity shared?
Ms Julie Bishop Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition
Madam Speaker, this is a very credible and balanced account. I seek leave to table pages 173 and 174 of Tales from the Political Trenches.
Ms Anna Burke Deputy-Speaker
Is leave granted for the passages to be tabled?
Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House
No; I think the author and the publishers might want people to buy it.