Senate debates

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

2:09 pm

Photo of Mathias CormannMathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

But, Mr President, if it looks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, it is a duck.

Honourable senators interjecting—

If it looks like a carbon tax, if it hurts like the carbon tax, it is a carbon tax. Whether you call it a carbon price, whether you call it a floating price or whether you call it a fixed price—whatever the Labor Party choose to call it—whatever they bring back will hurt. (Time expired)

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