Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I note that the minister’s response was quite patronising. Perhaps he can make a better effort at answering the supplementary question. Is the minister aware of comments by nuclear task force member Mr Warwick McKibbin that the carbon trading scheme is essential to manage risk and compensate business for losses as they develop technologies to lower greenhouse gas emissions? Is the minister aware of Mr McKibbin’s comment that ‘there is no precedent for innovating first and creating a market second’? Is Mr McKibbin wrong as well? Why is it that all the experts refuse to accept that the minister knows best?