Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for COAG) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given that the government has revealed that details of the Labor-Greens carbon tax will not be finalised for many months, meaning that legislation will not be presented to the parliament until the second half of this year, isn’t it just an underhanded attempt by the government to concentrate on their Labor-Greens compact and have their carbon tax passed in a post-July Senate, where the balance of power will held exclusively by the Greens?