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

The minister is still doing his sums, I think, on the cost of Hazelwood power station at $1.6 billion a year and whether he believes assessments like that should be done or whether pollution should be zero rated—that is, not accounted for in any measured economic way at all. If so, what other parts of the market does he think should be assessed at zero? The other question that Senator Milne asked was about the greenhouse gas emissions coming out of logging in Tasmania, Victoria and southern New South Wales in the wake of the minister’s assurance to the committee that the Australian government had a system of assessment of greenhouse gas emissions which was the best on the planet and that the figures were readily available.