Senate debates

Monday, 15 June 2009

Questions without Notice

Emissions Trading Scheme

2:48 pm

Photo of Mark ArbibMark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

We are obviously providing a great deal of industry assistance to ensure that companies in those exposed areas can make the transition, and that is why we are not starting this for another 12 months. It is all about jobs—that is what the government is all about; that is what our changes are about: protecting the environment, fighting climate change and at the same time making a huge reform into the future. The green jobs we talk about are something that you on the other side have no idea about. (Time expired)

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