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

I want to thank the member for Hasluck, who is a great local environmental champion and, of course, has produced the Green Map for Hasluck and is working with young people and the local Green Army. I have been with him and seen local Green Army projects and the jobs that are being provided. His approach was to ensure that we do practical things for the environment but that we get rid of an unnecessary tax which was not working, which was having an impact on the cost of living for families and which was driving up the price of electricity without in any significant way doing the job and reducing emissions. I thank him for that work both locally and in this parliament. And do you know what? He asks about the savings from the repeal of the carbon tax. The ACCC recently confirmed that the very analysis which Treasury did before the repeal of the carbon tax has been borne out by reality. That is what this debate is about. It is not about whether we reduce emissions but it is about how we do it and how we do it effectively. What we inherited from this mob on the other side—pink batts—

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