Senate debates
Monday, 7 November 2011
Bills
Clean Energy Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Tax Laws Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Excise Tariff Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Shortfall Charge — General) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Auctions) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Fixed Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (International Unit Surrender Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Customs) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Excise) Bill 2011, Clean Energy Regulator Bill 2011, Climate Change Authority Bill 2011; In Committee
6:17 pm
Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Education) Share this | Hansard source
I do thank the minister for her advice that I perhaps join the One Nation party. I can assure her I am entirely comfortable with the Nationals and have no intention whatsoever of leaving the Nationals or joining any other party. The minister may have taken my comments rather sensitively, but in pointing out the purchase of goods from China I was merely pointing out the irony of Australians purchasing product from a country whose emissions are significantly higher than ours. The minister might not see that, but it is entirely up to her to view things in the way that she sees fit. The Australian people know that the emissions in China are growing at a rapid rate, so goods purchased from China are coming from a country with a much greater rate of increase in emissions than is the case in this country. It is as simple as that, and it is a fair point to make. Can I ask the minister in terms of compensation—
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