Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to precisely the same report just discussed on energy prices released by the Australian Industry Group, which predicts that a carbon price of $26 a tonne will push up household electricity bills by an additional $300 a year in the first year alone. Will the Treasurer acknowledge, as government officials did this week, that this $300 per family will be additional to any other increase in electricity prices? Why is a tax that he ruled out in August as ‘hysterical’ policy now?

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