Andrew Willcox (Dawson, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Based on the government's secret modelling, can the minister guarantee that Labor's new tax on utes and cars will not increase the purchasing of a new SUV, people mover or ute in Australia?

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Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Members on my right will cease interjecting. The member for Moreton will leave the chamber under 94(a). He was on a warning and it is not the time to interject before a minister speaks. The question was heard in silence, and so shall the minister.

The member for Moreton then left the chamber.

Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Dawson very much for the question. I'd like to start my answer with a quote:

… when fuel efficiency standards were introduced in the US, the most popular models before introduction stayed the most popular models after introduction … what we'd call utes … There wasn't a material change in price and we don't expect that there would be a material change in price here.

Now, who said that? Who said that? You'd think it would be me because in terms of the new vehicle efficiency standard impact analysis we have put out, that is what's in there. It could have been Minister Bowen as well. But who was that? It was, in fact, the member for Bradfield, when he released the draft regulatory impact statement for the fuel efficiency standards that those opposite were going to introduce back in 2018!

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Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Members on my right will cease interjecting.