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

From the member who called Canada a pariah, that is a great comment—a real triumph of diplomacy, that one. Let me make these points: as the member for Lindsay says, her electorate is suffering more from higher electricity and gas prices than they need to. But on Monday of this week, AGL, which services numerous customers in her electorate, made the following statement:

… price reductions will flow through to residential and small business customers, if the carbon repeal legislation is passed by the Federal Parliament.

A very interesting thing happened just an hour and a half ago: in the Senate, the Labor Party voted to try to put back the repeal date for the carbon legislation; they voted to try to put back the consideration of the carbon legislation. There will be a new Senate soon and, when that happens, they will consider it—

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