My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his statement on 12 August last year, just nine days before the election, when he was asked on The 7.30 Report:

… are you going to rule out a carbon tax in the next term of the Government - yes or no?

to which he replied:

We have made our position very clear. We have ruled it out.

Treasurer, why should the Australian people ever believe anything you say again?