Senate debates Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing


Mathias Cormann

Mathias Cormann WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance

2:09 pm

If Labor was re-elected to government, Labor would bring back the carbon tax, Labor would push up the cost of electricity again and Labor would push up the cost of water and the cost of sewerage again right across Australia, including for Indigenous communities in remote Australia. I make this prediction: in the lead-up to the next election, Mr Shorten will campaign and will go to the election promising, 'There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead.' Mr Shorten will go to the campaign—'There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead.' They will use all sorts of weasel words—

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