Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that from 2014 the govern­ment intends to impose a carbon tax on heavy road transport starting at 6c a litre, exacerbating the huge cost increases that will hit Australian farmers as a result of the carbon tax, can the minister confirm whether the government will abandon the changes to the fuel tax credit scheme, which is just another example of an underhanded attempt to bring agriculture into the carbon tax net?