Ian Macfarlane (Groom, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources) Share this | Hansard source

He says, 'It's their plan.' We never presented legislation in this House when families were in financial crisis, because we knew, we were in touch and we understood. We believed in making sure that there was no pressure put on families by a tax. This government is mindless and careless to that fact. It knows families, or it should know families—

Mr Champion interjecting—

Mr Lyons interjecting—

Perhaps the interjecting members opposite do not care or perhaps they do not know—perhaps both—but we know that families are under pressure now, just as we knew when we were in government, which is why we never proceeded with these bills. Those members are now saying to their electorates, 'We don't care that we're going to put your price of LPG up by 20 per cent.' I say to them: you had better hope we save you by defeating these bills.

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