My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Conroy. I refer the minister to comments made by the Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business earlier this week:

Small businesses don't pay the carbon price - it is a price paid by Australia's biggest polluters.

Given the Prime Minister confirmed last week that, as of July 2014, transport fuels are covered by the carbon tax, doesn't this mean that thousands of additional small businesses in the transport sector will now actually be paying even more for Labor's carbon tax through higher fuel prices?