House debates Statements by Members

Goods and Services Tax

Tuesday, 24 November 2015 House of Representatives

Ed Husic

Ed Husic Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Treasurer

1:51 pm

Where are the defenders of the family budget? Where are those people who last term you saw at the greengrocers, you saw them at the butchers, you saw them at the fishmongers, you saw them at refrigerated storage. You even saw a former Prime Minister out there at an ironing board, telling everyone that every single thing would be increased as a result of the carbon price. Whyalla would be wiped out and we would all be forced to eat $100 roast lambs—that the earth as we know it would be completely flattened because of the impost of the carbon price. And then what happened?

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