Senate debates

Monday, 30 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]

Third Reading

9:40 pm

Photo of Barnaby JoyceBarnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Are you saying that the reason you won an election was an ETS? I thought you won it on IR, but apparently you won it on the ETS. Apparently that is the reason you won the election. Apparently the whole reason for the Labor Party to exist is the ETS. That is the Labor Party, ladies and gentlemen. That is the Labor Party to the Australian public: it is a representation of a massive new tax. That is what it stands for. That is what it is now standing for. The Labor Party is a massive new tax to be foisted on working families throughout our nation. That is what it has become. We will prosecute this debate that it is nothing more than a massive new tax. That is what it has evolved into. So now we have the global—

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