Ian Campbell (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

Business does have an incentive. The trouble with the Labor Party is that they ignore the hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars we have spent. In my last answer, Senator Evans was sitting there interjecting—creating hot air and greenhouse gases as usual. What he was saying was, ‘Tell us what you’re doing.’ I tell you every day. The Labor Party have a two-word policy—they say, ‘Sign Kyoto.’ We are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to put 12,000 solar cells on people’s roofs through the Solar Cities program. Our Greenhouse Challenge program allows businesses to reduce their abatement and to get credit for it. We have created, through the Greenhouse Friendly program, a voluntary carbon-trading scheme. You cannot even get the Labor states to sign up to your trading scheme. You want a carbon tax. The premiers of WA and Queensland will not have a bar of it, because they are too smart.