Ian Macfarlane (Groom, Liberal Party, Minister for Industry) Share this | Hansard source

I do not mind taking that interjection, because if anyone is out of touch it is those who sit on the other side. How out of touch can you be when families are facing power increases and the Queensland Competition Authority says that without the carbon tax the increase will be more than halved?

How out of touch can you be when faced with those statistics that you continue to support a tax on households, when the people of Australia have given those on this side of the chamber a mandate to remove the tax? That side is so far out of touch that they do not know the pain that families are going through at the moment in relation to increased electricity prices.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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