Craig Kelly (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The previous speaker on the bill, the member for Wakefield, discussed the carbon tax—the one that the Labor Party were so desperate to keep that they voted against its repeal six times in this chamber. No wonder they want to try and silence debate. Getting back to the old, ridiculous taxes that the carbon tax now joins: the Window Tax 1696 was a tax on the number of windows that people had in their houses. What happens when you go around and tax the number of windows in people's houses is that they block their windows up. What effect did this have? It created many dark and damp tenements. The medical profession of the day understood that this mistaken tax actually was a source of disease and ill health. That is exactly what the carbon tax has done: it has created disease and ill health.

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