Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

then what we see is that Victoria has just been slugged with $1.5 billion of carbon tax over the last year, $3 billion of carbon tax over the last two years and, in particular, within that is over $1.3 billion of electricity taxes in the year just finished. If we are not to repeal the carbon tax, then Victorians will pay an additional $1.3 billion in electricity taxes, and so will Victoria's firms. That is why in the last 24 hours we have had the Minerals Council call for the carbon tax to be repealed immediately, we have had the Australian Industry Group call for the carbon tax to be repealed—

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