Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

and even Senator Conroy has to laugh at this—that somehow air conditioning in a motor vehicle, in the year 2008, is an outrageous luxury which should be taxed at the rate of 33 per cent. Just imagine if an employer were to put a union member in an un-air-conditioned motor vehicle in the outback of Australia, where it is 40 degrees in the shade.