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

To the member who raises the question: if the member wants to directly discuss the issue, then of course I am open to discussing with him issues in his electorate. I am making the assumption he is genuinely raising the issue in the parliament and wants to discuss it with the government.

Can I say to the member and to the parliament more broadly: with carbon pricing, we have seen in this parliament many, many claims made which, on investigation, do not turn out to be true. Indeed, in the course of this question time, from the Leader of the Opposition and from the shadow Treasurer, we have seen a continuation of the kinds of misrepresentations which have characterised this debate. The opposition has been so negative that it has predicted a permanent depression. It has been so negative that it has predicted the death of the coal industry. It has been so negative that it has said that this will be a wrecking ball through the economy, that the increases in the price—

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