ABC Bush Telegraph Interview with Cameron ... - Greg Hunt MP

the science, ignore what the CSIRO is saying is simply to mislead again on this point. And
Direct Action itself is using taxpayers’ money, Cameron, to throw at a few large companies
in the hope that they will cut carbon pollution. There won’t be any money left over for the
Carbon Farming Initiative under the Liberal’s plan. And there won’t be any money, full stop,
for the Carbon Farming Initiative because they want to kill the carbon price. It is the carbon
price that is needed to provide funds for the Carbon Farming Initiative.
Cameron Wilson: Well I know we would need an entire program to debate the science
around soil carbon. So I note also Mark Dreyfus that you didn’t answer that question there
about the score out of ten. A question that Greg Hunt did answer.
Mark Dreyfus: I will give it a nine, Cameron. How is that? I am not claiming perfection but
I will give it a nine out of ten.
Greg Hunt: I will just finish off, Cameron, to say we can do this. We can do it without an
electricity tax and I think farmers know it and I think they just want to get on with the
business and be able to capture carbon in soils, revegetation, reforestation by reducing
emissions through land sector and livestock processes.
Cameron Wilson: We will have to leave it there. Thank you gentlemen very much for
joining us today. Greg Hunt, the Shadow Climate Action Minister and Mark Dreyfus, the
Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change.
ENDS