Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter

Senator WHISH-WILSON (Tasmania) (14:21): David Blowers, in The Conversation today, stated that the National Energy Guarantee is a second-best option and that our previous working carbon price was the best policy option as it avoided the need for a complicated emissions and reliability guarantee. Your Energy Security Board has recommended that carbon credit units and international units could be permitted to meet a proportion of the retailer's guarantee. Minister, have you returned to carbon trading? What proportion of Australian emissions reductions will you allow to be achieved by international carbon credits? (Time expired)