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PROFESSOR ROSS GARNAUT, GOVERNMENT CLIMATE CHANGE ADVISOR: The discussion’s got a long way to go, Jenny and what we have just heard is very sad. The mainstream science, the people who have spent their lives studying climate change, are very strongly of the view that global warming is real, that humans are making a substantial contribution to it and that if we don’t do something about it, we will seriously destabilise the whole basis of our way of life.

It’s just so sad that that lady who is obviously a very sincere lady has been misled in this way. The science is quite clear, there’s a way of dealing with it that won’t lead anyone to be poorer. The money does not disappear when there’s a price on carbon and the Government said it is going to be given back in substantial amounts to households. I have recommended that enough be given back so that low and middle-income earners won’t lose anything at all.

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