Coalition Commitment to take pressure off Mitchell Households

Friday, 17 May
2013

The Coalition will help Mitchell
families, households, retirees and pensioners get ahead and plan their futures
with confidence by scrapping the carbon tax as well as ensuring that tax cuts
and fortnightly pension and benefit increases are kept.

Federal Member for Mitchell, Alex Hawke
said the announcement by Tony Abbott that the Coalition will keep income tax
cuts and fortnightly pension and benefit increases without a carbon tax is good
news for Mitchell families.

“We can keep tax cuts and pension and
benefit increases without a carbon tax, because we’ve made the responsible
savings and have a strong plan for managing Australia’s Budget.

“We’ve ensured this promise is fully
paid for so we don’t add pressures to Labor’s debt and deficits and at the same
time, we’ve helped families, pensioners and small businesses by removing the
cost of the carbon tax from power bills and rising prices.

“We’ll also ensure households get the
full benefit of the abolition of the carbon tax by requiring the ACCC to make
sure companies do the right thing.

Alex Hawke said that since the election
of the Rudd/Gillard Government average electricity prices had risen by 94% and
gas prices by 62%.

“When I talk with people at shopping
centres and sporting fields they tell me they are under pressure. 

Alex Hawke said removing the carbon tax
will help household budgets, improve the competitive position of Australian
businesses and make Australian jobs more secure. 

“We cannot undo all of the damage of
Labor’s economic vandalism overnight but you know we can and will do it,
because we’ve done it before and we’ve done the hard work on our Plan to do it
again.

“Everything we do is about
building a stronger economy.  A stronger economy is the key to almost
everything we wish for as a nation: it means more jobs, higher wages, greater
government revenue, better services and, ultimately, stronger and more cohesive
communities.

 “The coming election will provide
electors in Mitchell with a stark choice: between three more years of broken
promises, nasty surprises and weak excuses from Labor, or the experienced
Coalition team with a Plan to build a strong, prosperous economy and a safe,
secure Australia”, concluded Alex Hawke.