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

Well, after the 2010 election they did a dirty deal to vote for it. And then they wrapped up $30 billion to try to compensate the industries that they were demonising. Then after the 2013 election they forgot. They forgot something: that they said they would terminate it. Along the way, as the member for Flynn said, they did terminate a couple of leaders but they never terminated the carbon tax, and when we voted and we pledged and we worked to repeal the carbon tax they stood in its way. They stood in the way of Australians receiving lower electricity and gas prices.

And do you know what? They said, 'Even if we did terminate it, these prices would never flow through in lower costs for families and businesses'.

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