Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The world's biggest carbon tax, you say. We are keeping to our election commitment to get rid of the world's biggest carbon tax. The Labor Party, unfortunately, is not keeping to its election commitment to terminate the world's biggest carbon tax.

Mr Conroy interjecting—

There are teeth moving over there but I cannot see the face. There is something moving—lots of chompers. Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the Townsville termination, when the member for McMahon and the former Prime Minister went up to Townsville and proudly proclaimed that the Labor Party was going to terminate the carbon tax. If Labor was re-elected they were going to terminate the carbon tax. The only problem is that, coming into opposition, Labor is now determined to oppose the termination of the carbon tax. Why? I found out why today. Outside Parliament House, in words that would ring true to everything Labor does—

Ms Butler interjecting—

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