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

A carbon price has been in place for some time, as the opposition would know, in Europe. The opposition would also know they went to an election previously promising to put in place a price on carbon, a commitment that was reneged upon by Mr Abbott, Senator Abetz and many others as a result of the leadership change in the Liberal Party. The facts are these: climate change is with us, climate change will worsen, the world will increasingly—