George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. I refer the minister to the Prime Minister’s statement last weekend reported in the Sunday Telegraph under the headline ‘Julia Gillard offers tax cuts … to offset price on carbon’ in which the Prime Minister is quoted as saying that tax cuts were a ‘live option’ in the government’s plans to provide compensation following the introduction of its carbon tax. I refer also to the report in this morning’s Australian Financial Review that the government has ruled out linking personal income tax cuts to the introduction of the carbon tax. If the carbon tax is inflicted on Australian families, will there be compensation by way of a reduction in personal tax or will there not be?