Maria Vamvakinou (Calwell, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. According to NATSEM, families in the Prime Minister's own electorate will be $144 worse off every year because of his unfair budget. But families in my electorate of Calwell will be over five times, or $783, worse off every year. Why are families in my electorate bearing the heaviest burden for the Prime Minister's broken promises?

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There are in fact 41,242 families in Calwell and each and every one of them will be better off because of the abolition of the carbon tax, and each and every one of them will be hurt by Labor's plan to whack the carbon tax back on. As sure as night follows day, if Labor get re-elected, they will put the carbon tax back on because they love taxes. They love taxes almost as much as they love unsustainable government spending, which is why all of those households and all of the people of Calwell would have been saddled with $25,000 of debt around their neck had the policies of the members opposite been persisted with. I understand that there are measures in the budget that not everyone likes. There is no easy way to tackle the debt and deficit disaster that Labor have saddled this country with, but tackle it we will. It is what we were elected to do.