Senate debates
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Customs) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Excise) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — General) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2]
In Committee
10:07 pm
Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
I want to follow up a few things with the minister and I would like to go back to bushfires. Up until now, as I understand it, one of the reasons why we have opted not to include our land-use sector is that the emissions from our bushfires would be quite significant. You said that Australia is working to have bushfires excluded from our accounts. I would like to know, since the majority of bushfires in Australia are deliberately lit, whether the emissions from bushfires generated by human activity count. Secondly, in relation to land clearing, if you succeed and Australia does not have to account for the emissions from bushfires, does it mean that a person can light a bushfire to clear land in order not to pay a carbon penalty?
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