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| Q&A recap: Direct Action not intended as emissions trading scheme, Pyne insists | |
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| Christopher Pyne has rejected a further suggestion that the Coalition’s Direct Action climate policy could operate as a de facto emissions trading scheme, telling the ABC’s Q&A program the scheme was not intended to work that way. | Christopher Pyne has rejected a further suggestion that the Coalition’s Direct Action climate policy could operate as a de facto emissions trading scheme, telling the ABC’s Q&A program the scheme was not intended to work that way. |
| Pyne, the industry minister, and his regular sparring partner, opposition frontbencher Anthony Albanese, were the only two panellists on Monday’s election special, which fell in week three of the eight-week campaign. | Pyne, the industry minister, and his regular sparring partner, opposition frontbencher Anthony Albanese, were the only two panellists on Monday’s election special, which fell in week three of the eight-week campaign. |
| The environment minister, Greg Hunt, dismissed questions at the National Press Club last week about whether the “safeguard mechanism” of the scheme could be triggered to require companies who exceed their baseline emissions to buy pollution permits, effectively turning it into a cap and trade scheme. | The environment minister, Greg Hunt, dismissed questions at the National Press Club last week about whether the “safeguard mechanism” of the scheme could be triggered to require companies who exceed their baseline emissions to buy pollution permits, effectively turning it into a cap and trade scheme. |
| Guardian Australia previously reported that an associate at Energetics, the firm which conducted the modelling of Direct Action, said the intended reductions could be achieved only by putting a lot more money into the emissions reduction fund or by tightening the safeguard mechanism. | |
| The idea was pushed further by Alan Kohler in The Australian on Monday, who said the Coalition’s policy was a “secret ETS [emissions trading scheme].” | The idea was pushed further by Alan Kohler in The Australian on Monday, who said the Coalition’s policy was a “secret ETS [emissions trading scheme].” |
| When the question was raised on Q&A, Pyne said he could not address the issue because he had not been told to read Kohler’s column before the show. | When the question was raised on Q&A, Pyne said he could not address the issue because he had not been told to read Kohler’s column before the show. |
| Labor voted with the Greens and the Coaliton to introduce the policy last year, but is campaigning on the basis of introducing a formal emissions trading scheme. | Labor voted with the Greens and the Coaliton to introduce the policy last year, but is campaigning on the basis of introducing a formal emissions trading scheme. |
| Asked by host Tony Jones if his vote in parliament meant he would support the Coalition introducing a de facto cap-and-trade scheme, Albanese also deflected by saying he had not read the Kohler column. | Asked by host Tony Jones if his vote in parliament meant he would support the Coalition introducing a de facto cap-and-trade scheme, Albanese also deflected by saying he had not read the Kohler column. |
| #QandA: Questioner is right. 'Safeguard mechanism' has potential to be an emissions trading scheme - but only if govt pulls the lever. | #QandA: Questioner is right. 'Safeguard mechanism' has potential to be an emissions trading scheme - but only if govt pulls the lever. |
| It was one of a number of points of agreement between the two frontbenchers, whose comfortable double-act is honed from their regular Friday morning appearances on Channel Nine’s Today show. | It was one of a number of points of agreement between the two frontbenchers, whose comfortable double-act is honed from their regular Friday morning appearances on Channel Nine’s Today show. |
| They were in agreement about defence spending, the offshore processing of refugees (though Albanese said Labor’s proposed doubling of the refugee quota would give people the “hope” they needed to remain in formal refugee camps), the need for more funding of vocational education and TAFE programs, support for the Australian steel industry, superannuation tax increases (although not whether they should be retrospective), and hatred of the Greens. | They were in agreement about defence spending, the offshore processing of refugees (though Albanese said Labor’s proposed doubling of the refugee quota would give people the “hope” they needed to remain in formal refugee camps), the need for more funding of vocational education and TAFE programs, support for the Australian steel industry, superannuation tax increases (although not whether they should be retrospective), and hatred of the Greens. |
| Points of contention included the National Broadband Network (NBN), which Pyne said would ensure people got “the speeds they want and need,” a metric he later described as the ability to watch five movies simultaneously (“That’s a lot of movies! That’s a lot of televisions!”). Albanese, who was briefly communications minister during the second Rudd government, said the NBN “isn’t about movies, it’s about the economy” and that the copper-to-the-home model being rolled out by Malcolm Turnbull, both as communications minister and later as prime minister, was “19th century technology.” | Points of contention included the National Broadband Network (NBN), which Pyne said would ensure people got “the speeds they want and need,” a metric he later described as the ability to watch five movies simultaneously (“That’s a lot of movies! That’s a lot of televisions!”). Albanese, who was briefly communications minister during the second Rudd government, said the NBN “isn’t about movies, it’s about the economy” and that the copper-to-the-home model being rolled out by Malcolm Turnbull, both as communications minister and later as prime minister, was “19th century technology.” |
| Another battle arose over the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, and his comment last week that most refugees were illiterate and innumerate, which Albanese characterised as dog-whistling and Pyne as misunderstood. | Another battle arose over the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, and his comment last week that most refugees were illiterate and innumerate, which Albanese characterised as dog-whistling and Pyne as misunderstood. |
| i'm not watching q&A but i bet pyne and albo debating their identical asylum seeker policy must be thrilling | i'm not watching q&A but i bet pyne and albo debating their identical asylum seeker policy must be thrilling |
| Pyne, who described the slimmed-down format as a “fireside chat” and insisted Jones refer to both he and Albanese by their first names, concluded by urging voters to support either the Liberal party or the ALP, saying “Only the Liberal party and the Labor party can deliver. We’re the only people that can form government.” | Pyne, who described the slimmed-down format as a “fireside chat” and insisted Jones refer to both he and Albanese by their first names, concluded by urging voters to support either the Liberal party or the ALP, saying “Only the Liberal party and the Labor party can deliver. We’re the only people that can form government.” |
| Albanese, unsurprisingly, agreed. He has been facing pressure from the Greens in his inner-west Sydney seat of Grayndler, a battle News Corp-owned tabloid the Daily Telegraph considered so dire it ran the front-page headline: “Save our Albo”. | Albanese, unsurprisingly, agreed. He has been facing pressure from the Greens in his inner-west Sydney seat of Grayndler, a battle News Corp-owned tabloid the Daily Telegraph considered so dire it ran the front-page headline: “Save our Albo”. |
| The Greens, he said, did not want to work with the major parties, but instead “they want to replace us.” | The Greens, he said, did not want to work with the major parties, but instead “they want to replace us.” |
| “I think have a look at where they’re concentrating their campaigns,” he said. “They launched their campaign in my electorate … I’m not the most right-wing person in the parliament, but that’s who they’re targeting. | “I think have a look at where they’re concentrating their campaigns,” he said. “They launched their campaign in my electorate … I’m not the most right-wing person in the parliament, but that’s who they’re targeting. |
| “[They’re] spending very little time attacking the Coalition … their objective is to try to take over a few inner-city seats, but that won’t change things.” | “[They’re] spending very little time attacking the Coalition … their objective is to try to take over a few inner-city seats, but that won’t change things.” |
| Left wing party in targeting left leaning seats shock. #qanda | Left wing party in targeting left leaning seats shock. #qanda |