Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We said we would abolish the carbon tax, and that is exactly what we are doing—we are putting the abolition bill through the parliament. Members opposite keep saying that the government should honour its commitments, and that is exactly what we are doing. No thanks to the opposition, though—not only is the opposition trying to stop us from honouring our commitments, but it is trying to stop us from honouring their own commitments—the tax cut that they had abandoned; the savings that they promised and are now opposing; and of course the carbon tax that they said they had abolished, and that they now love. We are being absolutely faithful to the commitments we made to the public pre-election, and it is high time the Labor Party was, too.

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