Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

May I congratulate the member for Lindsay on a famous victory—in particular, all done without a Julia Gillard tattoo. The member for Lindsay is absolutely right. States and territories have been slugged, in terms of their services, with the carbon tax. Last week, we learned that Victoria had a $13½-million-a-year electricity and gas bill as a consequence of the carbon tax on their hospitals. Yesterday, the South Australian government confirmed a $10-million-a-year hit on their hospitals, their schools and their police stations in their Mid Year Budget Review—and they have already banked the savings from the repeal.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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