Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thought you might say ‘It’s all right.’ I like you, Senator Bilyk, otherwise I would pursue this a bit harder, but I am not going to. On Meet the press on 15 August the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, said:

... what we rejected is this hysterical allegation that somehow we are moving towards a carbon tax ...

‘Hysterical allegation’ is right. On 12 August, on the 7.30 report, Mr Swan said:

We have made our position very clear. We have ruled it out.

As soon as the election is over, the deceit starts. I suspect that Ms Gillard and her now comrade-in arms, Senator Brown, had actually had these discussions before the election. I rather suspect—