Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given the significant increases in the cost of electricity as a direct result of Labor's carbon tax, does the minister now concede that Australian businesses will be worse off under Labor because any small cut in company tax to the very few will be more than wiped out by the significant increases in the cost of electricity to everyone as a direct result of the world's biggest carbon tax?