House debates Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

Thursday, 28 June 2012 House of Representatives

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop Mackellar, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Seniors

2:40 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that some of our nation's most vulnerable older citizens are now being told that they face increased residential care fees which are almost twice as much as the increase forecast by Treasury under the carbon tax. Can the Prime Minister explain to these pensioners why the government is inflicting this additional financial pain on them when our domestic emissions will actually increase under the world's biggest carbon tax by eight per cent?

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