John Cobb (Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer to the statement in a report by Growcom, one of Australia's largest representatives of vegetable growers, that farmers will be hit with immediate cost increases of between $5,500 and $45,000 a year because of the world's biggest carbon tax. Does he expect farmers to absorb the massive increase in their costs, or to pass it on to consumers through higher prices for their groceries, and, if so, how?

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