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

The Leader of the Opposition, who is obviously desperately casting around to create some drama here, would well know that from the day we announced carbon pricing we were very clear about the impact on electricity prices for families. The Leader of the Opposition then ran around the country and said, 'Oh, it won't be 10 per cent, it will be 20. It will be unimaginable. You just wait and see.' And of course the jury is in now and it is 10 per cent, which means the majority of Australian households will come out of carbon pricing either square or in front. The Leader of the Opposition well knows that these are the designs of a carbon-pricing scheme, because he sat in a federal cabinet when one was being designed—

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