Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I am sure honourable senators will have noted that Senator Conroy did not answer about the Ford Territory. Can I ask: is it a fact that with the decline in luxury car sales this financial year—at 20 per cent and growing worse—the government’s ill-conceived luxury car tax surcharge will raise tens of millions of dollars less than budgeted, exposing the MYEFO assessment as erroneous? Rather than trying to unscramble the egg—