Government senator telling porkies and scoring own-goals

Catallaxy Files (Australia)
"Last week Senator Matt Thistlethwaite (ALP, NSW) asked questions about the Australian Trade and Industry Alliances advert on the Carbon (dioxide) tax. .....So Senator Thistlethwaite, the cost of the carbon tax is not $71 billion and the Australian Trade and Industry Alliance makes no such claim – rather it is about $1 trillion and that’s from a Treasury spreadsheet."