Tony Abbott’s mobile scare campaign continued today during his visit to the Sydney Fish Market.

The Government’s carbon price will only apply to less than 1,000 of the biggest polluters in our economy.

The Sydney Fish Market isn’t one of those businesses, Tony Abbott is either ignorant of this fact or deliberately misleading the public.

Under the Government’s carbon price, households will also receive fair and generous assistance to help them with price impacts.

Tony Abbott tried to suggest that the price of fish would rise by excessive amounts under a carbon price. 

However, under the CPRS, the impact on the price of a fresh fillet of Ocean Trout bought today from the Sydney Fish Markets would have been less than 3 cents.

Following admissions from both Mr Turnbull and Mr Hunt that the Coalition’s policy is all cost and no assistance, Tony Abbott should have been explaining that his policy would cost households $720 a year.

Or in the currency of the day, Tony Abbott’s Direct Action policy would cost an average family the equivalent of approximately 192 fillets a year of that same fresh Ocean Trout.

The fact is that Tony Abbott is not interested in engaging in real issues and members of his own Shadow Ministry admit the greatest virtue of his policy is that it is no real policy at all. He is only concerned about playing politics and running baseless fear campaigns.

If Tony Abbott wants to demonstrate his fitness to be a leader he should drop his scare campaign and engage on the issues. He could start by answering why making households pay for big polluters under his Direct Action policy is more preferable than the Government’s approach.