Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I do thank the member for Forrest for her question and I appreciate her concerns to ensure that every job be made more secure and every business being made more competitive by the abolition of the carbon tax, which is doing enormous damage to jobs security and competitiveness right across our economy but particularly in an energy-intensive state such as Western Australia.

If it is not repeal the carbon tax will go up and up and up: $24 a tonne now, $38 a tonne in 2020, and an almost unimaginable $350 a tonne by 2050.

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