Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Here we have it again from those opposite: descending into the scare campaign, the miserable scare campaign, that they want to run. Then they use question time to try to promote their mistruths about this issue. What we have in terms of industry compensation—and there is no impact on the government's industry assistance—is that the majority of assistance comes through free permits which will move the price.

What the opposition do not talk about is the household assistance that we are providing. They do not talk about the industry assistance which this government are providing. All we hear from those opposite is them wanting to run up the scare campaign, over and over again. It went through from 1 July. We have had more than 100 days of experience under it, and what we now find is that they are trying to reinvigorate the scare campaign which has died out. Why did it die out? It was because this government has acted to put a price on carbon, to reduce carbon pollution, to deliver assistance and compensation for households— (Time expired)