Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

They never like it when facts are on the table, but these are his words:

Our modelling had nothing to do with whether the US had a carbon price. It did not test the impact of the US being in or out of the market.

The very modelling that Leader of the National Party refers to is modelling that has been misrepresented in the public domain by those opposite.

On the question of compensation for Australian families, what the Leader of the National Party may not understand is that for the compensation package we have Treasury modelling, which deals with the impact of electricity prices and deals with the impact therefore on CPI, uses a figure of 0.7 per cent—

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