Mr SWAN (Lilley—Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer) (14:23): The premise of the Leader of the Opposition's question is simply wrong. First of all he is claiming that the increases in electricity prices are principally the result of the carbon price. That is a lie, and it has been demonstrated to be a lie by the decisions that have been taken— Mr Pyne: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker, the Acting Prime Minister is not entitled to use that kind of language to describe the opposition, and we would ask him to withdraw it. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms AE Burke ): The Acting Prime Minister will withdraw and will answer the question. Mr SWAN: It is simply untrue— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The Acting Prime Minister will withdraw. Mr SWAN: I withdraw. It is simply untrue to claim that the great bulk of those price increases are the result of the carbon price. They are not and he knows that to be false. The fact is the impact on the average household from the carbon price when it comes to the average electricity bill is $3.30 a week. He knows that is the case, but he is out there not telling the truth about the impact. We have the Leader of the Opposition walking back from what he was saying a week or two ago about the impact of the carbon price. First of all he said it was going to put a wrecking ball right through our economy. The wrecking ball has gone out the door, and he is now saying it is going to be a python squeeze rather than a cobra strike. Mr Pyne: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker, the huffing and puffing of the Acting Prime Minister is not answering the question, which is what the price is going to be when it is $350 a tonne. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member for Sturt is not to use points of order for debate. It is an abuse of the process, and I will be calling people to account in the future. If it is relevant then get up and make a stand on a point of order on relevance. Mr SWAN: Whether it is a cobra or a python, it does not change the fact that the Leader of the Opposition is a snake oil salesmen. He has been slithering around the country with a whole series of poisonous messages and a forked tongue telling untruths about the impact of the carbon price on electricity. That is what he has been doing, and it is not true. Now we have been told that this is responsible for what is going on in New South Wales. I tell you what: there is a choice in New South Wales. From the billions of dollars that Barry O'Farrell is getting from the electricity generators, why doesn't he give it back to the people of New South Wales in cuts to their electricity prices? They are the ones that are principally responsible for price increases. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The Acting Prime Minister will return to the question before the chair. The difficulty is that when the question is framed as such I am put in a precarious situation. Mr SWAN: The impact of the carbon price for the average household will be $3.40, for which they will receive average compensation of $10.10.