House debates
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Questions without Notice
Carbon Pricing
2:39 pm
Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source
what they said is this: 'We estimate that the average AGL small business gas customer in Victoria will save 10.3 per cent off their bills backdated to 1 July 2014. We estimate that the average AGL small business electricity customer in Victoria will save 9.7 per cent.'
So whether it is gas, whether it is electricity, whether it is Victoria, whether it is the ACT or whether it is New South Wales those prices are coming down. There is an alternative plan: the Leader of the Opposition wants to reintroduce the carbon tax. It is their policy, it is their plan, it is their goal and it is their sacred objective. And that will mean that electricity prices will go back up. Electricity prices will rise. He talks about slugging Australian families—he is the slugger.
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