If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?