Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

This is a budget that is about fairness to all Australian people. It is about delivering better services. It is about reducing the cost of living by getting rid of a $550 penalty on Australian families under the carbon tax. We are getting rid of a cost that is an impost on the lives of every Australian. That is a cost that has to be borne day in and day out. What is more, under Labor, that cost would continue to go up every year. Their commitment to a carbon tax is that it will be bigger next year than it is this year.

The coalition is committed to getting rid of the carbon tax. Labor wants to reintroduce it. What I can say to nurses and other Australians whose costs are going up under the carbon tax is that we will be taking away the impact of that cost and, into the future, every cost under us will be lower than it would be under Labor. Labor is committed to imposing the carbon tax again. The carbon tax adds to the cost of living. It is designed to do that.

Mr Albanese interjecting—

Ms Collins interjecting—

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