Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (14:54): I ask that Leader of the Opposition to address himself to some of the facts that I know he finds uncomfortable. He walks around making claims about carbon pricing: Norway's carbon tax on petrol, $64; Switzerland fossil fuels, $37; Sweden on heating fuels, $145; Ireland a carbon tax of around $24; Finland taxes on— Mr Abbott: Madam Deputy Speaker, on a point of order: to answer the question, she needs to indicate that these are bigger than Australia's carbon tax and none of them are. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms AE Burke ): The Prime Minister is answering the question. Ms GILLARD: In Canada, the province of British Columbia's carbon tax is around A$28. Those are the facts for the Leader of the Opposition. Of course, what he does not want people to recognise is that in South Korea they have just legislated to have an emissions trading scheme. California is moving to an emissions trading scheme. He does not want any of those facts recognised, because he wants to play his fear campaign. What he does not want recognised as well is that he stood alongside Prime Minister Howard in the 2007 election, when Prime Minister Howard promised that the emissions trading scheme that the Leader of the Opposition believed in then would be a world-class emissions trading scheme—more comprehensive, more rigorously grounded in economics and with better governance than anything in Europe—the platform he went to the 2007 election on. Since then, what the Leader of the Opposition has done is to decide that his narrow political interest is best served by fear campaigning. The problem for the Leader of the Opposition is that whilst it has been easy to run around the country making all of these huge claims about carbon pricing, it is not going to be sustained when it happens on 1 July. When the sun sets on 1 July and people are still digging coal, when the sun sets on 1 July and the prices in the shops are not astronomical, when the sun sets on 1 July and power prices have not gone up by 30 per cent, when the sun sets on 1 July and you can happily walk down the streets of Whyalla, what is the Leader of the Opposition going to say? He will have been exposed before the whole Australian community as someone who has been on a campaign of deceit for month after month after month just in his naked political interest. Opposition members interjecting— Mrs Mirabella: You've been exposed as a liar! Ms GILLARD: No amount of screaming or squealing by the opposition frontbench changes that simple truth. On 1 July every Australian will know— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member for Indi will withdraw without qualification. Mrs Mirabella: I withdraw. Mr Mitchell interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member for McEwen is warned. Ms GILLARD: If the Leader of the Opposition believed any of these reckless claims, he would be guaranteeing them today and members of his team would not be investing in the mining industry. (Time expired)