Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Education) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Is the minister aware of comments made by Mr Michael Linke, the CEO of RSPCA ACT, who said yesterday that, in relation to the impact of the government's carbon tax:

… we will see an erosion of the services not only at the RSPCA but at charities across the country because there is no compensation, there is no funding elsewhere to pay for this.

Given Mr Linke's statement, will the minister now concede that not even organisations looking after animals are safe from the government's carbon tax?