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

In relation to the industries which are represented in those locations, I have visited a number of them. I remind the senator—and it is a pity because I thought Senator Boyce actually had a slightly more realistic and progressive position on climate change than some others, but obviously I was wrong—that, for example, regarding the aluminium smelting and refining, which is an industry represented in Gladstone, as she would know, the government have made clear in the white paper that we would anticipate, obviously subject to the provision of information about emissions, that aluminium smelting would receive 90 per cent free permit allocation.