Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister and every single Liberal and National member and senator are for lower electricity prices, for more reliable energy supplies and, indeed, for ensuring that we deliver lower electricity prices and reliable energy supplies in a way that is environmentally efficient. What we are against is driving the cost of electricity up and up—as Labor has done in the past and as Labor would do in the future—because we understand that would harm our economy and it would harm families. Go right ahead: go to the next election on the rerun of your carbon tax policy of 2010 and subsequently—the one that was never supposed to happen. Remember:

There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead.

That is what Ms Gillard said. This morning, Mr Dreyfus was asked, 'Will you have a carbon tax?' and he said:

… I am not going to play the rule out game.

Everybody in Canberra knows that that is code for yes. (Time expired)