Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. I refer him again to the words of Professor Garnaut in his report, when he says:

In the long run, households will pay almost the entire carbon price as businesses pass carbon costs through to the users of their products.

Will the Treasurer now admit that he misled the Australian people just last Sunday when he said, 'Only the biggest polluters—less than 1,000—will pay for the pollution they emit'?

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