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

I am aware that, this day, members opposite's colleagues in the Senate, and the Greens, have voted to keep the carbon tax. That is what they have done. They have voted to keep the carbon tax that they told the Australian people before the last election they had terminated. They said before the last election that they had terminated the carbon tax and yet today they voted in the Senate to keep that selfsame carbon tax. All of us would remember the former Prime Minister, Mr Rudd, running around the countryside saying the carbon tax was terminated. Hundreds of thousands of Australians got these brochures saying that the carbon tax—

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