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

I want to thank the member for Banks for his question. He is not only a member with a distinguished career in business but also a member who fought for a Georges River recovery plan. It is great, after having had 32 questions on the environment from this side, to reflect on the fact that we have not had one question on the environment from that side. There was nothing about the Georges River recovery plan, nothing about the Yarra recovery plan, nothing about the Swan River recovery plan, nothing about the Torrens River and there is still nothing about our dugong and turtle protection plan.

I want to apologise to the House. Yesterday, I quoted from the member for Port Adelaide's community newsletter, and I omitted something. It is true that, almost a year ago, he said that the carbon tax had been terminated and it is true that he said it twice, but I neglected to mention that he also said that 'The decision to terminate the carbon tax will save an average family around $380 in 2014-15.'

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