Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given government revelations last night that not one single free carbon permit has been issued by the Gillard government to an Australian business and, at most, only 170 of the 42,500 Australian export businesses will ever get free carbon permits under Labor's carbon tax, how can the government expect Australian exporters to remain competitive with businesses across Asia, the US, South America, Africa and Europe, without basically being put out of business?