Mr ABBOTT (Warringah—Prime Minister) (14:06): I am delighted to get this question from the Leader of the Opposition because it gives me yet another opportunity to tell the House and to tell the Australian people that this government supports direct action. We do not support carbon taxes. Whether they are fixed taxes or floating taxes by way of an emissions trading scheme, we do not support carbon taxes. The great thing about the Direct Action Plan is that it is incentives and not penalties. We will never— Mr Dreyfus interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Isaacs will desist. Mr ABBOTT: whack the Australia economy with a $9 billion Australian handbrake. We will never whack households with a $550 a year charge. We will never put in place policies that will reduce the steel industry by 20 per cent or reduce the aluminium industry by 60 per cent. We will never put in place policies that would reduce our GDP by a cumulative $1 trillion by mid century. We will never put in place policies that would reduce gross national income per person by $4,000. That is what a carbon tax or an emissions trading scheme, beloved by Labor, would do. There are dumb ways to reduce emissions and there are smart ways. We will support Direct Action—the best way to reduce emissions and that the same time helping our economy.