Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

Let me say, there have been alternative proposals established in recent weeks. We know at the ALP conference that they laid down a carbon tax but they would not call it a tax, but the member for Hunter, to his credit, said, 'You can call it a tax if you like'—not just once, not just twice but three times before the cock crowed did Joel call them out and call it a tax. He told us it was a tax. What does it mean? Only yesterday we saw the true costs of their own modelling of their own policy. Their own tax showed a $209 price, a $600 billion cost and a $5,000 per family hit—their modelling and their tax showed a 78 per cent increase in wholesale electricity prices. We will make real reductions but we will do it without an electricity tax. They have failed to make real reductions and they will impose a crushing electricity tax. (Time expired)

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