House debates Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

Thursday, 28 June 2012 House of Representatives

Warren Truss

Warren Truss Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals

2:28 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the fact that sulphur hexafluoride, a synthetic greenhouse gas widely used in the power industry and even in eye surgery, will face from Monday a carbon tax of $549,000 per tonne, an import application fee of $15,000 per tonne and a handling fee of $165 a tonne to help pay for the carbon tax bureaucracy. Will the Prime Minister stand by her claim that only a few hundred businesses will pay the carbon tax?

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