PM angry as carbon tax repeal defeated

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has vowed to push on with scrapping the carbon tax despite the Senate voting down the measures.

The Senate rejected the Abbott government's package of nine bills to abolish the fixed price on carbon emissions on Thursday.

Mr Abbott said Labor was breaking its commitment to remove the tax.

"The carbon tax is an act of economic vandalism," Mr Abbott told question time.

"You can't trust (Labor) anywhere near an economy."