Senate debates
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Bills
Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], True-up Shortfall Levy (General) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], True-up Shortfall Levy (Excise) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2]; In Committee
6:37 pm
Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source
My question to the Labor Party is: why don't you accept the verdict of the Australian people at the last election? The Australian people at the last election had two basic propositions in front of them. One was that we would scrap the carbon tax and we would not replace it with anything that looks like a carbon tax, that smells like a carbon tax and that flies like a carbon tax but the Labor Party tries to suggest somehow is not a carbon tax. Our position was that we would scrap it and we would not replace it with an emissions trading scheme in the form that you suggest.
No comments