Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I ask the minister if, after almost four years involved in this job, with the resources of a special department of the government to look at these things, her inability now to answer even these basic questions demonstrates that the carbon tax proposed has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with the Gillard government's debt crisis.