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

I had one that was authorised by then Senator Louise Pratt that says: 'Carbon tax abolished. Kevin Rudd and Labor have removed the carbon tax, saving the average family $380.' That is what you went to the last election telling the Australian people. It does not say anything in here about an emissions trading scheme. It does not say anything in here about the fine print that you suggest to people, somehow, was hidden somewhere else. You went to the Australian people with flyers and materials telling them that you had removed the carbon tax. Now you are still playing games and still running a filibuster in order to try and keep it for as long as possible. The carbon tax is still here. It went up again on 1 July because the Labor Party is standing in the way of the government doing the right thing by the Australian people, and that is to get rid of a tax that is not in their interest.