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

Thank you, Mr President. I again remind the minister that the Prime Minister made an emphatic promise before the last election that there would be no carbon tax under a government she leads. Why, then, does Australia have the biggest carbon tax in the world? It is a tax which is about to get bigger when Labor will hit families and businesses with yet another five per cent increase in the carbon tax.