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

Mr President, I ask an additional supplementary question. Given the Minister representing the Prime Minister could not present any evidence that the Daily Telegraph story is in fact wrong, and given Labor's carbon tax is already having such a devastating effect on businesses and jobs across Australia, why is the government pressing ahead with a further five per cent increase in Labor's carbon tax on 1 July 2013?