Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I say to the Leader of the Opposition that we will take a look at the document that has been provided, because the routine performance of the opposition in this place has been to mislead about the content of bills that they have referred to in question time. We have seen that done before by members opposite, and then when we have had the opportunity to look at the bills and speak to the businesses involved we have seen the nature of the misleading.

But the Leader of the Opposition knows—and he should not mislead about this—that the modelled impact on electricity prices is 10 per cent. The Leader of the Opposition knows that as regulators around the country have made decisions about electricity pricing that has been bang-on with the modelling and in some states less than the modelling. That means that the assistance package was properly structured. That assistance package was designed to give people with fixed incomes, like pensioners, more assistance than they needed on average to deal with the flow-through impact of carbon pricing. The Leader of the Opposition ought not to be in here trying to add to his scare campaign which has already been viewed as ridiculous by Australians. Let us remember that Whyalla is on the map today, we are still mining coal today, Australians are still in work today, lamb roasts do not cost $100 today—this misleading campaign has been exposed as the sham it always was. (Time expired)

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