Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I take it, from the minister’s answer, that the government will be taking no steps to support carbon trading until such time as there is a fully established international scheme. That is certainly contrary to the impression the Prime Minister gave yesterday. But does the government still maintain that a carbon trading scheme is a significant threat to our economy, that it would cut real wages and increase electricity prices and is total economic folly? Is that your assessment of any carbon trading proposition designed to cut emissions in Australia?