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

I am asked about the level of the carbon price. This fact should be remembered in this chamber: the party who is seeking to impose the highest carbon price is not the Australian Labor Party; it is not even the Greens. It is the coalition who want to double the effective carbon price, double the cost on the Australian economy, tax Australians $1,300 a year to pay for a taxpayer funded, bureaucratically imposed inefficient scheme. Under the opposition's policies, Australia would need a carbon price at least twice as high as under our Clean Energy Future plan. If Senator Joyce cares about the cost of transforming the economy, perhaps he should have a look at what Mr Hunter has put up. What Mr Hunter has put up would cost the people who sent Senator Joyce here far more.