Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

He very, very clearly talked about those upwards pressures before the last election and indicated that electricity prices would rise no matter who formed the government after the election. I thank him for that honesty.

On the question of carbon pricing, of course we are going to get big polluters to pay and we are going to use more than half that revenue to assist Australian families. At the same time, the shadow minister who asked the question is now backing—as a result of having to leave behind his former position because of the hypocrisy of the Leader of the Opposition—a rip-off of Australian families to take that money out of family budgets and to give it to big polluters. I will leave him with that position. We will put a price on big polluters and assist families.

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