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

That was not really a question, if I may say. It was yet another iteration of a set of inaccurate propositions—if they get worried about the word 'lies', I will say 'falsehoods' or 'untruths'—that the opposition continue to put in relation to pricing carbon. What they do not tell Australians is that they are signed up to the same reduction by the end of the decade that the government is, but what they want to do is get taxpayers to fund it and make the economy bear a greater cost. That is what the opposition want to do. But they do not want to talk about that; all they want to talk about are a set of propositions which are wrong. What we are seeing is the opposition, even Senator Cormann, backing away from some of the more ridiculous propositions which are being made, including the tax being death to industries and towns being wiped off the map, all of which are simply untrue.