House debates

Thursday, 17 July 2014

Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

2:12 pm

Photo of Warren TrussWarren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

will include a $36 refund. The people of Brisbane will receive a $36 refund because the carbon tax is gone. Their costs will be lower. The cost of disposing of garbage will be lower and they are passing on that benefit to the Brisbane ratepayers.

Other local authorities, I hope, will take the lead. Other businesses also are obligated to take the lead, and this government, as promised in the election, has committed extra resources to the ACCC to make sure that these benefits are in fact passed on. The men and women of Australia know they voted for this tax to be eliminated, they wanted it to happen and now this government has delivered.

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