Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

If you vote for the Labor Party, the toxic, job-destroying, price-increasing carbon tax will be back. The choice is very clear. If you want lower electricity prices, lower electricity bills, you will need to vote coalition at the next election. If you want more expensive costs at the supermarket counter, you will need to vote Labor at the next election. Finally, if you want schools to pay the carbon tax after 2016, you will vote Labor. If you want schools not to pay the carbon tax, you will continue to keep the coalition in office.

I would like to thank the Labor Party for making the next election about the carbon tax again. We won one election on it. We arguably have won two elections on it. I can tell you that if the Australian public find out that if they vote Labor the carbon tax is coming back, woe betide those members in marginal seats who think they are coasting to victory at the next election. They will get a very nasty surprise.

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