Claim: During the 2013 election campaign the Coalition said its first legislative priority in government would be to scrap the carbon tax.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: We'll scrap the carbon tax so your family will be $550 a year better off.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: He committed to abolishing the carbon tax, to bring down power and gas prices, and to abolishing the mining tax to increase investment and employment.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Labor and the Greens opposed the Coalition's promised abolition of carbon pricing, and the introduction of "direct action" carbon-reduction policies, but the Government secured cross bench support for the repeal of the tax in July 2014.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: On the first day of the new Parliament, Abbott introduced legislation into Parliament to repeal the Carbon Tax, and commenced Operation Sovereign Borders, the Coalition's policy to stop illegal maritime arrivals, which received strong public support.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Heading into the 2013 Australian federal election, the Liberal Party platform included the removal of the 'Carbon Tax', claiming that the election was in effect a referendum on carbon pricing in Australia.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: While any carbon price would not be triggered until after the 2013 election... She would legislate the carbon price next term if sufficient consensus existed", and the federal opposition accused the government of breaking an election promise to not introduce a carbon tax.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: A carbon pricing scheme in Australia, commonly dubbed by its critics as a "carbon tax", was introduced by the Gillard Labor Government in 2011 as the "Clean Energy Act 2011" which came into effect on 1 July 2012.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Carbon tax support:

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Legislative action is one strategy that politicians are using to combat carbon emissions.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Respect - The Unity Coalition were also in favour of a 90% cut in carbon emissions by 2050, but did not express a view on the bill.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In response to a question on the sense of urgency of the SR15 report during a 9 October interview on CBC News's "Power and Politics" Andrew Scheer, the Leader of the Opposition, promised that they are putting forward a "comprehensive plan to reduce CO2 without imposing a carbon tax" which Scheer said "raised costs without actually reducing emissions.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Following her election as party leader, in various policy announcements in the lead up to the 2010 election, Prime Minister Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan gave assurances that no carbon tax would be introduced by a Gillard led government, but that a "citizens' assembly" would be called to sound out public support for a price on carbon.