Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I think the question about gross misrepresentation of the truth ought to be turned on the other side. We are going through a process of designing a carbon price, including dealing with the issues that you are talking about. We have said that every cent raised by the carbon price will go to Australian households and businesses and towards tackling climate change. Those are the parameters that we have put in place. Senator Birmingham is coming in here and saying that there are going to be all these people who will be dreadfully worse off on the basis of no facts whatsoever.