Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Labor Party gets very sensitive when you bring up two issues. One is the carbon tax. They don't want to talk about the carbon tax and the fact that the Labor Party today have not ruled out introducing a carbon tax on the Australian people. The other thing they don't want to talk about is the reckless nature of their 45 per cent target—which is almost 10 times larger, in terms of the carbon price that was proposed under the previous carbon tax—that they've announced. It will push up electricity prices and will close industries around the country. It is a wrecking ball on the Australian economy, what the Labor Party are proposing.

They believe that they are going to walk into government. The leader of the Labor Party is the most cocky, swaggering, arrogant leader at the moment. He thinks it's all done. The hubris that is coming from the other side of the chamber is quite extraordinary—very, very cocky. But what the Australian people will increasingly focus on between now and the next election is that Labor are planning big changes for our economy: $200 billion worth of taxes; reckless targets which will put up electricity prices for pensioners, for families. Labor cannot be trusted on the economy.

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