Senator EDWARDS (South Australia) (15:15): I also rise to take note of the answers given by Senator Wong in question time. I concur with Senator Carol Brown that climate change is indeed real. We can all go along with that. The question that we raise and continue to have unanswered—in fact, Senator Wong is like the Artful Dodger when it comes to answering this question—is whether the Gillard Labor government will release the modelling for the carbon tax. The answer is, 'We have released an unprecedented amount of information to do with it.' It is not a big ask. It is only, as outlined by the Labor Party, the single biggest tax reform that this country has ever undertaken, and we are not getting any scrutiny of it at all. There are independent people out there in the Australian business society who would like to have it scrutinised. In Senate estimates we heard questions asked about when the model is going to be released. Again, the answer came back, 'When we think it might be fit to be released.' Is this another, 'Well, we will get to it soon'? Is it going to come before the next election? I do not know. All we hear from Senator Wong is, 'There is an enormous amount of information out there in the public domain.' What we do not need is another talkfest with voluminous amounts of information that do not accurately represent the financial modelling on which this government has based, punted and bet the economic future of this country's prosperity. The Productivity Commission has the model, but it is not in the Australian public domain. We want some transparency from the government on this one. We would like the people from Bloomberg to have it. They have got a couple of hundred of economists over there who might want to have a look at it and make some public comments. Why won't we give it to them? Instead, we are faced with a model that, on the government's own admission, has a decline in GDP in real terms from 2020 to 2050. What it is, I predict, is churn. It is just another bureaucracy churning it out, taking money from those who have it and generate it, putting it through a mill and distributing it as they see fit. Senator Wong continues to avoid the question about whether she will give the opposition the opportunity to rightly scrutinise it under that good and solid Westminster system of government that keeps everyone accountable. Senator Boswell: What have they got to hide? Senator EDWARDS: Senator Boswell asked, 'What have they got to hide?' I do not know. I suspect it is because, since 2007, electricity prices across Australia have increased by an average of 51 per cent; gas prices have increased by an average of 30 per cent; water and sewerage rates have increased by an average of 46 per cent; health costs, hospital costs, dental costs and pharmaceutical costs have increased by an average of 20 per cent; education costs—school fees—have increased by an average of 24 per cent; and rent has increased by 20 per cent. The cost of living is just going up and up and up—and you want to impose from 1 July next year another impost on business which they cannot pass on. It will erode the profitability of businesses through increased electricity prices, and all that lays before them is fewer job opportunities for people in manufacturing. Just out today, we have got the Australian Food and Grocery Council saying that, amid the range of ominous trends and forecasts, the industry is at a crossroads. Its publication shows that the industry is facing a perfect storm of costs and regulatory pressures. How much more of a burden are you going to put on business when the carbon tax comes out? There will be more forms to fill in. In its Industry at a crossroads publication it is saying there could be a loss of up to 130,000 jobs in manufacturing and a further 6,000 jobs in associated sectors like agriculture by 2020. There could also be a slump in operating profits of 4.4 per cent and 11.6 per cent, purely because of the introduction of the government's economic— (Time expired)