Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Materiel) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister, but she says that the largest component of the price rise has not been the carbon tax. Is she then aware that the ACT's independent Competition and Regulatory Commission has found:

The increase in the cost of wholesale electricity is almost entirely attributable to the introduction of a price on carbon by the Australian government.

Can the minister explain to Canberra residents why the carbon tax component of their price hike, some 75 per cent of the rise, should be so much higher than that of other Australians?