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

My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that the City of Sydney Council have been advised that they will have to collect nearly $1 million extra in rates because of the carbon tax? Other councils like Wollongong and Blacktown will have to increase rates by nearly half a million dollars a year. Will the Prime Minister apologise to ratepayers for rate rises that have only occurred because she broke her promise that there would be '… no carbon tax under the government I lead'?

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