I refer the Prime Minister to comments by the Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change on ABC radio this morning regarding the dry cleaner I visited yesterday, who has been excluded from the government’s emissions trading compensation scheme. I quote:

Costs faced by such a business will be passed through in the prices of that dry cleaning business and consumers will meet the cost.

So I ask the Prime Minister: does he agree with his minister’s admission that costs for small businesses and consumers will rise as a direct consequence of his great big new tax on everything?