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

The people of Darwin are currently being expected by those who sit opposite us to continue to pay for electricity prices at a premium because those who sit opposite do not care what the cost of living is for those people in the Northern Territory. If they care, I ask them to demonstrate that concern by instructing their brothers and sisters in the other chamber to get out of the way and allow us to revoke a carbon tax which the people of Australia were promised by those who sit opposite would never be introduced. They said there would be no carbon tax under the previous Prime Minister's government and yet we know what happened the moment they got into government.

They have a chance to redeem themselves for a deliberate misstatement by the then Prime Minister about her intentions for what the Labor Party would do when they got into government. They have the opportunity to save the nine entities in the Northern Territory which have been hit with a carbon bill of over $66 million. They have a chance to redeem themselves—it is a small chance, but they have a chance. All they have to do is say—

Mr Conroy interjecting—

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