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

It is hard, isn't it? A three-second silence and she has gone troppo. The member for Swan voted for lower rates in Western Australia; the member Perth voted for higher rates. And, most recently, in the last few days the member for Swan voted for lower public transport costs, and just last week we saw Transperth announce fares would be reduced from November 1 following the repeal of the carbon tax.

But there are other plans: let me look at what the The Sydney Morning Herald said just over a week ago in an article by Mark Kenny. The headline said: 'Carbon price on Bill Shorten's agenda':

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has raised the prospect of reviving one of Labor's most politically damaging policy areas—a carbon price …

He will not call it a carbon tax, but the answer is very simple: if it looks like a carbon tax, if it hurts like a carbon tax and if it raises electricity prices like a carbon tax, it is a carbon tax. You know what? He will not call it a carbon tax between now and the election, but we know what it is. You know what it is, and the Australian people know that you want to bring it back. We are for lower electricity prices; you are for higher electricity prices, and that is all that matters.

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

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