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

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. We are constantly told by the Prime Minister that the carbon tax is good for Australia and, indeed, good for the world. Why then did the Prime Minister three years ago solemnly promise never to introduce a carbon tax under any government she led? Did she three years ago not understand what she now—

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