Now for the ironic albeit risqué script: -
Quote:Senator FISHER (South Australia) (3.24 pm)—The
members opposite have no answers—and I rise to take
note of the nonanswers given in question time today
and to note that all this government is doing is dancing
a dance.
Our Prime Minister is dancing a very merry dance,
at the behest of the Greens and to avoid calling a tax
a tax. She is dancing a very merry dance to try to
deny that she has broken a promise that there would
under her government never, ever be a carbon tax. We
might as well do the hokey pokey again on a dud of a
policy that is all pain and no gain. It is bereft of detail;
it is a total dud. All it will do is distort the market. It is
bereft of details. Is petrol in or is petrol out?
You put petrol in, you take petrol out. You put petrol in
and you shake the tax about. You do the hokey pokey
and—ooh!—you turn right around. And what happens when
you turn right around? You are back to where you were
before: all pain, no gain. As Senator Furner said, it is as
useless as an ashtray on a motorbike. The government’s
carbon tax will surely be that, and as useless as
tits on a bull. The analogies are endless.
The Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Senator
Wong, said that the carbon tax is all about the future.
No, it is not. We are in a time warp. It is like the ETS
all over again. It is a dud of a policy. You have released
it without detail. It is all pain and no gain. We might as
well do the Time Warp dance:
It’s astounding;
Time is fleeting;
Madness takes its toll.
So let’s do the Time Warp. You might as well take us
back to the time of the ETS with this carbon tax, because
that is what it is—‘Let’s do the Time Warp
again.’
It is, after all, ‘just a jump to the left’ and then a
‘step to the right’ as this government moves us closer
and closer to a carbon tax. The government jumped to
the left and said, ‘We’ll never have a carbon tax.’ The
government then stepped to the right, because now
they would have us believe that that which was wrong
before apparently—a carbon tax—is now right. Now it
is right to have a carbon tax.
So put your hands on your hips—and this is where it
gets good; we are supposed to believe that—because
the Prime Minister, hands on hips, is going: ‘Tut, tut,
tut. It’s not a tax; it’s a scheme. It’s a market based
mechanism.’ Call it what you will, it is a tax. A tax is a
tax is a tax. So:
Put your hands on your hips.
Bring your knees in tight.
The Prime Minister is going to have to do that. She is
going to have to bring those knees in tight, because
Minister Wong has conceded that yes, the carbon tax
will increase prices; it will increase costs. Bring your
knees in tight. The government might as well confess a
carbon tax will increase petrol prices at the bowser.
Once the Australian people are aware of the increased
prices at the bowser, bring your knees in tight. Some of
that excess money will be siphoned offshore for the
government to deliver on the UN pledge for developed
countries to subsidise developing countries to save
themselves on climate change. But it is the pelvic
thrust:
But it’s the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane.
It is the pelvic thrust. It has to be parliamentary. The
Prime Minister wants it to be.
Senator McEwen interjecting—
Senator FISHER—Senator McEwen, lift your
head. It is at the behest of your Prime Minister. It is the
pelvic thrust that is really going to drive the Australian
people insane, and that is the carbon tax. It is a dud of a
policy without detail. It will be all pain and no gain.
And yes, Senator McEwen, you should hang your head
in shame, as should your Prime Minister and your government.
Question agreed to.
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