Senator CHRIS EVANS (Western Australia—Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:18): As I said, I will not be lectured by people like Senator Brandis about process given the way they rammed the Work Choices legislation and other legislation through this parliament. But I do remind him that this parliament, as I understand it, has had about 35 inquiries into these issues over the last few years. This is an issue that we have all been engaged in for some time. My starting point on that was the review that Prime Minster Howard did before the 2007 election—an excellent piece of policy work. Prime Minister Howard said, as a result of that work, that we needed to have a price on carbon. John Howard went to the 2007 election saying, 'We've done this serious examination of the issues and we support a carbon price.' So we have had a long series of inquiries on this and we have had definitive work done by Prime Minster Howard, and many others since, that makes the case strongly for putting a price on carbon. (Time expired)