Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Senator Wong. Could the government please explain the statements by economics professor Ross Garnaut in his sixth upgrade report that Australian farmers will only be exempted from a carbon tax ‘from the beginning’ and that ‘ahead of its coverage’ the government will buy carbon emission offsets from the farm sector? Does this government have another plan, apart from the plan that it told the Australian people, to actually include farmers in its carbon tax net?