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

The other thing the Leader of the Opposition plans to do is put a 45 per cent emissions reduction target on. We know that will increase electricity prices for every pensioner, every household and every business. It will see places like, as the member for Flynn knows, the Boyne Island smelter, with 1,000 jobs, going out of business because of the reckless policies of the leader of the Labor Party.

The Australian people will be faced with a choice at the next election: higher taxes and reckless policies on energy from the Leader of the Opposition and the Labor Party, or lower taxes, a stronger economy and services that Australians can rely on from the Liberals and the Nationals.

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