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

estimated that it is an $85 billion cost. By contrast, this is about actually doing things. We are not doing pink batts or green loans or 'cash for clunkers'. We have reduced emissions by 47 million tonnes. We have done it without a carbon tax and we have done it in a way which reduces costs and which does not hit, in Canning, businesses such as Alcoa. We see the Willowdale and Huntly bauxite mines and the Alinta cogeneration plant. All up, Western Australians were hit for $2 billion under the carbon tax. It has gone under us. It is coming back— (Time expired)

Mr Mitchell interjecting—

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