She has a mountain to move to convince Australian voters to support her carbon price package but Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the evidence backing her position is as “high as Mount Everest”.

The federal opposition is not conceding the carbon pricing scheme is a done deal, as Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her ministers cross the nation talking up the plan.

Former prime minister Bob Hawke says the government’s carbon price pitch could be better but he’s confident the public will support it just as they did with Kakadu’s national park declaration 20 years ago.