"As a nation, we need to put a price on carbon and create a clean energy future, " Ms Gillard told a news conference in Canberra.
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With climate policy in disarray here in the United States as well, leading environmental organizations and progressives would do well to look to our friends in Australia for a new model to move away from compromised and politically unsustainable emissions trading and toward major public investments in clean energy innovation and infrastructure to create a prosperous clean energy economy.
What really matters to create a new clean energy economy and stimulate private investment in the near-term are policy regimes that employ direct and targeted public investments to cover the cost gap between higher-cost clean energy and fossil fuels.
"I think we should wipe the board clean and create a national theatre with bases across the country with people feeding into it in both languages, " said Ms Morgan, who starred in the classic '70s rugby drama Grand Slam and the Magnificent Evans with Ronnie Barker.
Yesterday, in Cedar Rapids, I proposed a new economic blueprint for 21st century America, a plan to create new jobs, to make a commitment to clean energy and innovation, which will be a job engine and creator, just as it is being now here in Iowa, to restore fairness to our economy.
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This would have been a major setback and killed any momentum toward efforts to create a robust clean energy economy in the United States.
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Secondly, I think as the President talked about even yesterday, we have an ability through incentivizing a clean energy economy to create the type of demand that's necessary to create more and more clean energy jobs.
Gone are the days when you are going to create a lot of opportunities and convert them - and just one clean line break or moment of genius at the death could have taken the game away from us.
President Obama called for a bipartisan energy and climate legislation to create incentives that will make clean energy profitable.
And because our economic future depends on our leadership in the industries of the future, we are investing in basic applied research, and working to create the incentives to build a new clean energy economy.
Globally, nations are investing in clean energy as a catalyst to promote economic growth and create high-tech, high-wage jobs.
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Let us create a new international clean technology fund, which will help developing nations like India and China make greater use of clean energy sources.
At home, that means continuing our efforts to build a clean energy economy that has the potential to create millions of new jobs and new industries.
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