Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his answers in the House yesterday and again today, when the Prime Minister said that Treasury documentation projected:

… electricity prices would rise by seven per cent in 2011-12.

I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s 820-page, easy-to-use, consumer-friendly, carbon-emitting guide to the real cost of the government’s ETS. I refer him specifically to page 17(3), which says:

Electricity prices are estimated to increase by around 18 per cent.

Prime Minister, which of these figures should Australian families believe—seven per cent or 18 per cent?

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