Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Fair Competition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Senator Wong. I refer the minister to a report in today's Herald Sun that Coogee Chemicals, which operates Australia's only methanol factory, which is in the Prime Minister's electorate of Lalor in western Melbourne, is planning to shelve its proposed $1 billion world-class expansion due to the direct impost of the Gillard government's carbon tax, potentially costing 150 jobs and exports worth $14 billion. Hasn't the Prime Minister now not only betrayed Australian voters, but also her own constituents, by going back on her word that there would be no carbon tax under the government she leads?