Senate debates

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

2:17 pm

Photo of Kim CarrKim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

They may be impressing One Nation advocates, they may be impressing the far Right demagogues in this country, but they are not impressing those that are genuinely progressive in the Liberal Party—and I know there are a few of them still left. We just had to watch Q&A last night to see Mr Turnbull making the point, in relation to Liberal Party policy, ‘I can’t cite any economist that agrees with it’—not one economist could he find. He said that he frankly preferred a price on carbon by a market based mechanism. (Time expired)

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