Michelle Landry (Capricornia, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Labor's plan for a new carbon tax will hurt hardworking Australians, especially families, seniors, small business owners and communities. Modelling commissioned by Labor shows that its policy to cut carbon emissions by 40 to 60 per cent by 2030 would strip up to $600 million from economic growth, drive up the cost of electricity, close up to 37 power stations and slash thousands of jobs. In Capricornia, Labor will drive up electricity costs in the homes of hardworking Central Queensland families and pensioners and will kill off coal jobs. Labor must have known this impact when it adopted its new version of the carbon tax. Labor must now fess up to the terrible repercussions of its policy in Central Queensland. Labor's candidate for Capricornia must now come clean and tell families how much their power bills will skyrocket, tell the local butcher how much his escalating power bill will further add to the cost of running his business, tell us how many coal jobs we are going to lose and tell us how many meat processing jobs in Rockhampton will be axed under Labor's second carbon tax plan.