John Madigan (Victoria, Democratic Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Senator Wong. At the recent Select Committee on Scrutiny of New Taxes hearing into the carbon tax mechanism in Canberra, I drew the attention of Treasury officials to the fact that each of the documents produced by the government regarding the carbon tax contained a disclaimer stating:

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Each of the publications I opened—'Clean Energy Australia'; 'Strong Growth, Low Pollution'; 'Securing Clean Energy Future' and 'Securing a Clean Energy Future'—contained this disclaimer. On each one I found this disclaimer. My question to the minister is: does the government have so little faith in the modelling provided by Treasury that it cannot accept responsibility for the figures being used to promote its carbon tax?