Key independent Tony Windsor has hailed the climate agreement as "a momentous occasion", while the Opposition is warning scams of the system are "inevitable".
Mr Windsor, a member of the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee, said he will be able to look back on the agreement as "something I'll be very proud of".
"It isn't about this week, this month, this year. It's about the future and it's about the future of people who aren't even here now and I think it's important to have been part of that," Mr Windsor told reporters outside Parliament House.
Post Script: Shaun Carney in The Age writes ".....
On climate change, the country has a prime minister who promised not to introduce a carbon tax, an opposition leader who says he believes in the need to arrest climate change but appears not to, and a third-party leader who argues against his own negotiated policy choice as a way of currying favour with his supporters.
The sum total of this is that it is highly likely that even after the carbon tax package is released next Sunday, scepticism towards the policy - and the entire issue of climate change - will remain high. What's ended up being misplaced amid the anticipation of the carbon price agreement is the most important question of all: will the policies of any of the parties actually reduce emissions to the desired level in the required time?
The entire issue has become so contaminated by politics that it stands as a testament to how inadequate and dysfunctional our political system is becoming.
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