Costing climate change policy ‘impossible’: Labor

Labor has conceded it is “impossible” to cost its climate change policies because there is no direct carbon tax or price on business. 

Labor says it will use existing climate change
mechanisms to enforce its own policies.

After weeks of sustained pressure about the impact of the cost of its plans to deal with climate change – including Bill Shorten’s celebrated clash with a television reporter who demanded he “answer the question” – the ALP now says there is simply no answer. 

Its admission follows wild estimates by critics of the impact of Labor’s policy, which have varied from $25 billion to $60 billion.

Read The New Daily story by Samatha Maiden - “Costing climate change policy ‘impossible’: Labor.”