Senate debates

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers

Carbon Pricing

3:26 pm

Photo of Sean EdwardsSean Edwards (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

He said 29c a tonne per hundred kilometres. I am quite happy for you to take it up with him, Senator Gallacher, if you think it is 27. But I will only apply it to my own experience: for 7,000 tonnes of grapes coming through a winery with an average trip of about 200 kilometres per trip, that is an increased impost on that business of $4,060 per annum. But let us just reduce it, dumb it down, to that argument where the punters out there will not have any idea as to what on earth you are talking about. Anybody that drives a truck—

Government senators interjecting—

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