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

This is a carbon tax in drag. What they have done is reintroduce the carbon tax. They put a different name on it. They put a different hat on it and, at the end of the day, you can call it what you want: it is still a carbon tax. Whatever changes you want to make, Mate, it is still a carbon tax. We do not support it. We are not going to vote for it. We are going to abolish it. There are real bills that will actually abolish this carbon tax.

I want to thank the people who drafted these bills: Simon Writer from the department and his team that have done a magnificent job; Keith Byles and his team from the Office of Parliamentary Counsel; the magnificent Alex Caroly and team from my office.

Let's vote these amendments down, vote the bill through and send this bill to abolish the carbon tax to the Senate.

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