Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. In light of the global financial crisis, which the Prime Minister has said will cause the Australian economy to slow and unemployment to rise, and Treasury modelling that shows the government’s emissions trading scheme will reduce GDP and create unemployment, why won’t the government take the economically responsible course of delaying the introduction of the proposed emissions trading scheme beyond 2010?