Lucy Wicks (Robertson, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Today's vote to repeal the carbon tax is fantastic news for families and small businesses right across Australia, and particularly on the Central Coast. Scrapping the carbon tax was a commitment that we made to the people in my electorate of Robertson before the last election. Today we have honoured this commitment so that we can help reduce the cost-of-living pressures for people on the Central Coast. Abolishing the carbon tax will save the average household around $550 a year, including around $200 on the average household electricity bill and around $70 on the average gas bill. Scrapping the carbon tax will also take significant cost burdens off businesses, like cafes in Terrigal, Gosford and East Gosford, and small businesses in areas like Woy Woy and Erina. This will make it easier for them to compete and generate more local job opportunities for people on the Central Coast. It has been a great grassroots effort to scrap the carbon tax, led by our Prime Minister Tony Abbott but helped by the thousands of small businesses and families in my electorate who told me emphatically that they did not want a carbon tax. Today I rise to thank the people in my electorate of Robertson for their efforts in joining a nationwide campaign to axe this toxic tax.