Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (14:43): I thank the member for Greenway for her question. I was very pleased earlier today to introduce into this parliament, alongside the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, the legislation to put a price on carbon and realise a clean energy future. An incident having occurred in the gallery— The SPEAKER: Order! The gallery will come to order. The attendants will deal with the gallery. The House will come to order. The Prime Minister has the call. Ms GILLARD: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. In seizing this clean energy future we will always be guided by the science and we will always be guided by the facts. The scientists are telling us—and we accept the science—our climate is changing. That change is caused by human induced carbon pollution and we need to act to reduce that carbon pollution. I know on the other side of the parliament they deny the science. We do not; we accept the science. And we accept the advice of economists that the cheapest way of reducing carbon pollution is to put a price on that carbon pollution, to ask the big polluters to pay. The legislation we have brought before the parliament will do just that. In asking the big polluters to pay, we recognise that innovative Australian business people who have a price on carbon pollution will innovate and change the way that they do business. They would work to reduce the price they pay for carbon pollution by reducing that carbon pollution itself. They will introduce new ways of working. We have innovative business people in our nation and we will see them respond and adapt as we put a price on carbon. This is a price that the biggest polluters pay and the revenue raised from that price will be used to protect Australian jobs, to ensure that we look after Australian households and to make sure that we innovate and seize a clean energy future. There is nothing more important to this government than people having jobs. We cannot afford to have our nation left behind as the rest of the world moves to seizing a clean energy future. By putting the price on carbon we will seize that clean energy future, we will seize those clean energy jobs. We will also work with Australian households and families and with pensioners to make sure that we are assisting them with the flow-through impacts of asking the biggest polluters to pay a price on carbon pollution. I am very proud that we have been able to associate with putting a price on carbon a major tax reform which will better value work, will send a clearer signal about the benefits of work and will send a clearer signal about moving from welfare to work, which will enable low-income Australians to see the benefits of the work that they do. We will always be guided by the science and the facts. I know that the opposition are taking a different approach. They have distributed this document of deceit to get their members out there telling Australians things that are not the truth. They are about fear, not facts. They are about slogans, not substance. We will deliver the change this nation needs for a clean energy future, for clean energy jobs, as the Leader of the Opposition continues his campaign of deceit.