Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

A couple of the programs that Senator Trood is asking about include the very programs that Mr Robb from that side says should be expanded. So in terms of the emissions-intensive trade-exposed assistance program, is the position from the other side that you want more free permits? What you obviously have not explained perhaps to your backbenchers and to the public is that that means less money for Australian households to manage the introduction of the scheme and the impact of a carbon price.

Through you, Mr President, Senator Trood also referred to the Electricity Sector Adjustment Scheme, again, a scheme which the opposition has said should have more money allocated to it. So if those opposite are going to come to this debate, perhaps they ought to put on the table exactly what they say should be occurring. We are establishing a new market here— (Time expired)