Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. The carbon-farming initiative was an election policy announcement. It will enable landowners to benefit from the capacity to generate offsets. As I said in the answer to the first question, Professor Garnaut’s views are Professor Garnaut’s views. The government has made it clear what its policy is. In the announcement that the Prime Minister made in relation to the climate change framework, I refer Senator Joyce to the indication in that that agricultural emission sources would be excluded from coverage under the carbon price mechanism. So I think that is quite clear.