Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

Further, by removing the carbon tax, the average household living costs will be around $550 lower. But it is not just our hospitals and health services that are burdened with this tax. The carbon tax is a $9-billion-a-year hit on the economy. The coalition government is committed to abolishing the carbon tax and will not stop until it is done. The Labor Party and the Greens would rather burden families and businesses with an economy-wide tax that fails to reduce emissions and sends industry offshore. It is time Labor and the Greens respected the mandate of the Australian people to abolish it.