Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (14:01): I say firstly to the Leader of the Opposition, one thing I know he never does is quote someone accurately. Let us remember the unseemly display we had yesterday when the Leader of the Opposition was twisting Professor Ross Garnaut's words to suit his fear campaign rather than quoting accurately. Here we have again another day, another looking for the fear campaign and looking for the angle. The one thing the Leader of the Opposition never does when he walks into this place is look out for the national interest and the national interest lies in getting on with the job of putting a price on carbon. We have a high emissions economy. We need to cut carbon pollution, we need to do the right thing by the environment and we need to create a clean energy economy for the future. If you care about the environment and cutting carbon pollution then you want to see action on climate change. If you care about economic efficiency then you want to see that action by putting a price on carbon. If you care about putting the burden where the burden should lie then you would put a price on carbon that big polluters pay because it is the big polluters who are in a position to change how they do their work and to create less carbon pollution. Then you would use that revenue as we are proposing to do: the majority of it to assist Australian households, protect Australian jobs and fund programs which will see us transition to a clean energy economy. So I say to the Leader of the Opposition that we will continue to push— Mr Pyne: Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The Prime Minister was asked if she agreed with the foreign minister's assessment that we should have an election before they introduce a carbon tax and she needs to answer that question. The SPEAKER: Order! The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. The Leader of the House. Mr Albanese: Mr Speaker, that was an outrageous abuse. It was a verballing of another member of parliament with an untruth in the guise of a point of order and it goes to disorderly contact. The SPEAKER: Order! The Leader of the House will resume his seat. The Prime Minister has the call. Ms GILLARD: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. As I was explaining, the carbon pricing regime that we are determined to bring into place is one where we put the burden on big polluters and we assist Australian families. What the Leader of the Opposition wants to do is put the burden on Australian families and assist the big polluters. Whenever he is given a choice of looking after Australian families—looking after the people who actually need the actions of government to assist them—he does not look after their interests, he chooses the interests of the big side of town. Whether it is big tobacco or big polluters, that is where he always finds what he wants to do next. We believe in putting the burden on big polluters to cut carbon pollution and to assist Australian families. I know the Leader of the Opposition believes in putting additional taxes on Australian families and using that hard earned money to subsidise big polluters. There is a reason the Leader of the Opposition is in a bit of a frenzy about all of this today and maybe it is because the penny has just dropped with him following the performance of Senator Barnaby Joyce on Lateline last night. He will be going to the 2013 election saying to Australian pensioners, 'I want to cut your pension,' and saying to Australian families, 'I want to take money out of your budget and bring it back to the government so I can give it to big polluters.' That is the proposition that he will take to the next election: cut the pension, take money off Australian families and give it to the big polluters. It is his policy, I will let him defend it, because I cannot imagine what the defence for that is going to be.