Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Bennelong for his question. As everyone in this House should know, this government went to the election promising to build a strong and prosperous economy for a safe and secure Australia, and at the very heart of our plan for a strong and prosperous economy is scrapping the carbon tax. The carbon tax is gone. This destructive, useless tax that damaged businesses, that damaged jobs and that damaged families' cost of living and this useless destructive tax that did not actually help the environment is finally gone. Four years after the former Prime Minister said that there would be 'no carbon tax under the government I lead', 3½ years after the former Prime Minister gave us this toxic tax—

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