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

Thank you very much, Deputy Speaker. The member for Flinders raises with me the question of electricity prices more broadly.

Opposition members interjecting—

I am answering the member for Flinders's question more broadly than households, which I have just described. Of course in modelling the impact for households, which will be less than a cent in a dollar, the flowthrough impacts from businesses were modelled into that cost-of-living rise, and households will see tax cuts, family payment increases and pension increases. I would also say to the member for Flinders, as he well knows, putting a price on carbon is the most efficient and effective way of reducing carbon pollution.

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