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

The Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

The Government has established a Carbon Price Implementation Team to provide information in support of the implementation of the carbon price.

In January 1999, the then Liberal Treasurer Peter Costello established a Tax Reform Legislative Unit to coordinate issues for Ministerial offices over the GST. The Carbon Price Implementation Team is similar to this unit.

The core functions of the team have been to support government Members and Senators in providing factual and accurate information to their constituents and correcting misinformation that is on the public record, and coordinating events relating to the Government's Clean Energy Future package among Ministerial offices.