House debates

Thursday, 15 May 2008

Questions without Notice

Budget

3:05 pm

Photo of Joe HockeyJoe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

Again, my question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, I refer you to the Treasury advice just tabled by the Minister for Health and Ageing. The assumptions in the Treasury advice include a fifty-fifty chance of a redirection of alcohol consumption to other products as a result of the change in price of RTDs. Given that this product in my hand is not an RTD or alcopop yet has twice the alcohol content at half the tax, can you now come clean and explain to the Australian people why you are not doing anything really about binge drinking?

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