Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

As I said, the government does continue to believe that unilateral action by Australia to introduce on its own—in ignorance of anything else that the world is doing or in the absence of any move in the international community to have an international trading scheme in carbon—will do significant damage to this economy and put Australians out of work for no gain to the environment whatsoever. It is a fallacy to suggest that you can just unilaterally introduce the domestic scheme without doing significant damage to Australians.