Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given the finding by the TD Securities-Melbourne Institute monthly inflation gauge that due to the introduction of the carbon tax from 1 July the price of electricity rose by 14.9 per cent and gas and other fuel prices increased by 10.3 per cent, how many of Australia's two million small businesses, facing those sorts of electricity price rises and other cost increases directly as a result of Labor's biggest carbon tax in the world here in Australia, will receive free permits?