Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

It's something that we will not step away from, member for Hunter, and we absolutely will not, because we need to remember these broken promises.

We mentioned $275 a lot in the last parliament. It's still there, still a broken promise and still on the record. But, in the meantime, electricity costs have gone up about 30 per cent. I talked about those bills on the kitchen windowsill that you really don't think you can open and the panic you feel when you can't pay your bills. There was not a manufacturing factory floor that I walked on in the last three years where somebody didn't say to me: 'We can't make things in Australia. We're going offshore. We're getting rid of our apprentices. We're losing business. We're feeling pretty awful about the situation.' That's because of energy policy, and this government's energy policy is a train wreck, and we will hold the government to account. We will hold this government to account on its energy policy. Pretending that 82 per cent of the grid can be electrified with renewables by 2030 is just a pipe dream. They are sneakily introducing more gas into the system because they know that's the only thing that works. But, meanwhile, families, businesses and households are struggling.

We had about four questions today—which were all avoided—on the big, bad super tax. It's superbig, it's superbad, and already the government is just trying to duck and weave about what it really means. We are asking the question. It offends every single principle of our taxation system that you would pay tax on income that you haven't earned, and I just want to make that point: paying tax on income— (Time expired)

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