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

I would have thought, Senator Cormann, that you would listen to what Prime Minister Howard did. Prime Minister Howard finally accepted the advice of the Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading, a group of leading business representatives and senior officials, to act on climate change with an emissions trading scheme. Those on the other side might like to recall the comments of former Leader of the Government in the Senate Robert Hill, who said in July:

Well I started work on a potential cap and trade for Australia almost a decade ago. And the political time wasn’t right then. Perhaps it’s getting closer. But basically, as with most Western nations, I think a cap and trade is the way to go.

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