Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the 87 per cent increase in the number of Western Australians who cannot pay their electricity bills after a 26 per cent price increase this year. I also refer him to the further 19 per cent increase, on Treasury’s own figures, coming down the pipeline as a result of his great big new tax. I ask the Prime Minister: will he apologise to those 77,000 Western Australians who already cannot pay their bills for threatening to make their lives worse? And will he now admit that his emissions trading scheme will not work and drop the whole idea?

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