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

I might refer those opposite to the comments from the Business Council of Australia on 4 May 2009:

In the interests of business certainty the BCA calls on the Senate to pass legislation this year to establish a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

And the AiG on the same date said, ‘The AiG supports the passage of the CPRS legislation this year.’ The reality is that the responsible economic thing to do is to provide business with the certainty that is required to drive this transformation. This is an economic reform. We are approaching it responsibly and soberly. We have, unlike those opposite, not rushed to come up with an idea after six weeks of modelling. We have been working on this since we were elected, building on the work that was started whilst the Howard government was in power. We have provided legislation to this parliament some 10 years after it was first started to be mooted and discussed by the Howard government. (Time expired)