Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (15:15): What an exquisitely timed question from the member for Kooyong. Mr Hunt interjecting— Dr Emerson interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! The Prime Minister will resume her seat. The member for Flinders and the Minister for Trade will leave the chamber for one hour under standing order 94(a). Hopefully they will go in opposite directions, but they will leave the chamber. The member for Flinders and the member for Rankin then left the chamber. The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister has the call. Ms GILLARD: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Can I thank the member for Kooyong for his exquisitely timed question, given we are on the issue of international linking and on the fact that the opposition have committed themselves to a scheme that would shut Australia away from the rest of the world and mean that Australian businesses and Australian taxpayers paid more of a price for moving our nation to a clean energy future and that, in particular, would put a burden of $1,300 on every Australian family because they would turn their backs on the rest of the world. Throughout the minister for climate change's answer, the Leader of the Opposition was chanting: 'Where are these markets? Where are these markets? Where are these markets?' Let me answer the Leader of the Opposition— The SPEAKER: Order! The Prime Minister will resume her seat. The member for Kooyong on a point of order? An incident having occurred in the gallery— The SPEAKER: The attendants will deal with the commotion in the gallery. The member for Kooyong. Mr Frydenberg: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order on relevance. I asked the Prime Minister a specific question: will the Prime Minister confirm that the government's carbon tax modelling assumes that countries such as Iran, Venezuela— The SPEAKER: The member for Kooyong will resume his seat. Mr Perrett interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Moreton is warned! The Prime Minister has the call. Ms GILLARD: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. The member for Kooyong has asked me about modelling; he has asked me about global carbon markets. For the information of the House, global carbon markets in, say, 2005 were worth US$11 billion. In 2010 they were worth US$142 billion. I understand that the Leader of the Opposition may miss economic developments, given his lack of interest, but a global trading market that has gone from $11 billion in 2005 to $142 billion in 2010 I would suggest is very hard for anybody to miss. But apparently the Leader of the Opposition has missed it, the same way as he has missed— Mr Simpkins interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Cowan is warned! Ms GILLARD: the fact that you can measure carbon pollution, which is why you can identify a tonne of it. On the member for Kooyong's question, he has asked me about the modelling and international action and international markets. The modelling core policy scenario assumes that countries meet the low-end commitments for 2020 they have made at Cancun and at Copenhagen. They are the low-end commitments, I repeat; so that is a conservative approach. From 2016 there is a global market and countries have some form of trade in permits—that is, there will be a mechanism for allowing abatement to be sourced in other countries. And then, of course, after 2020 it is assumed that the global cuts in emissions needed to reach global targets are shared across regions. On this question of modelling, as the opposition increasingly turns its back on anything that looks like sensible economic policy let us be very, very clear about the modelling. Hundreds of pages of information have been released. This modelling has been undertaken by exactly the same people who advised the Howard government—for example, they modelled for them the impact of the GST. Putting a slur on the modelling is the same as putting a slur on the scientists and on the economists. It is the kind of thing that the Leader of the Opposition does as he twists and turns to try and maintain his protest campaign, but he is completely unable to articulate a policy alternative, which is why he will go around saying all things to all people and agree with the last person he spoke with. Of all the things that have been dealt with in question time today, the government of course is vitally interested in the question of Australian jobs. It still seems to me that a question that should be answered in this parliament is why the Leader of the Opposition is always available for a photo opportunity with a manufacturing worker but when it comes time in this parliament to put his hand up for $300 million of assistance for them he will not do it because he prefers the cheap, petty politics he is known for. (Time expired) Mr Frydenberg: Mr Speaker, could the Prime Minister please table the document from which she was reading? The SPEAKER: Was the Prime Minister quoting from a document? Ms GILLARD: I was referring to a document which is confidential.