Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

The impact would be higher electricity prices for families, higher electricity prices for pensioners, higher electricity prices for business, fewer jobs, a slower growing economy. That would be the impact of Labor's plans to stop us from implementing our mandate to scrap the carbon tax.

There was no footnote, no fine print, no qualification, nothing whatsoever that made the commitment here to scrap the carbon tax conditional. This is what it said, and I repeat it to the chamber. I was surprised to come across this flyer in Western Australia, but Senator Pratt distributed this flyer and she is nodding, she is confirming it: 'Carbon tax: abolished. Kevin Rudd and Labor have removed the carbon tax.' Nowhere here does it say that there will be some sort of additional tax, a different tax, another tax, a floating tax instead of a fixed tax. It says, 'Carbon tax abolished' and Labor should— (Time expired)