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

I agree absolutely. I was referring to the fact that the headline in TheDaily Telegraph this week was about a $600 billion carbon bill. That is exactly the case, because this brings right to the point their terror at their own policy, their dishonesty about the impact of that policy and the fact that they said they would terminate the carbon tax at the last election and voted to keep it and the fact that they are now going to bring it back and impose on Australians a $600 billion carbon tax bill, a $209 carbon tax price, a $5,000-per-family hit and a 78 per cent impact on wholesale electricity prices. That is why this question from the member for Page is so important, because, unlike every member of that side who voted to keep the carbon tax, he voted to repeal the carbon tax. Every member on this side voted to repeal the carbon tax. As the ACCC showed us recently, that produced $550 of savings for Australian families on average. That is what the ACCC itself has said.

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