Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

On behalf of the opposition, can I just put a few markers in the ground. Sure, this issue has been inquired into at some great length by the Senate. As a result of those inquiries and examinations, Senator Wong’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation has been junked. We are now looking at Mr Combet’s legislation because the Prime Minister himself was forced to put somebody else into the ministry as a parliamentary secretary to prop up this failing minister. Her legislation was such a failure that the government itself has junked it. It is now in the rubbish bin.