Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, the member for Wentworth told ABC News earlier this year:

The Coalition’s policy is not the ideal from my point of view I grant you that—I’d like to see a market-based solution.

Of course he is right. The coalition stand outside mainstream economic and business thought on these issues. The coalition’s so-called direct action policy fails to guarantee the transformation of our economy that we need. The overwhelming consensus of Australian business and economists is that a carbon price is the most economically efficient way to tackle climate change and that is why we are committed to it. (Time expired)