Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question and I would ask the minister to look at his own government’s legislation relating to nuclear power. I ask the minister: is his answer effectively that there will be no price signal built into the Australian economy, either through a trading regime or a carbon tax, until the whole globe is involved—in other words, until after 2012, or Kyoto 2, as the Prime Minister calls it? With the fast-moving world involved in climate change, what is the alternative that the minister has for pricing the inherent multibillion dollar damage that is now clearly forecast to occur to the Australian economy and is occurring right now through pollution of our atmosphere?