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PM Julia Gillard under attack over carbon copy

Thursday, 03 March 2011 08:30

Are we surprised?  The Australian reports that "JULIA Gillard faces accusations of hypocrisy as evidence grows that her proposed carbon pricing plan is almost identical to the scheme she urged predecessor Kevin Rudd to scrap last year.

Doing nothing is preferable to this

Wednesday, 02 March 2011 00:43

(The Carbon Tax)...policy design madness has two downsides. First, across very many industries, our trade competitiveness is reduced. One response will be to reduce output and shift to competitor countries not imposing a carbon price. This includes agriculture, due to carbon pricing of its inputs, despite its proposed exemption. Australia loses activity and jobs. Emissions reductions here are partly offset by increases overseas. Read Geoff Carmody's Opinion Piece here.

First focus groups in? Things have changed since carbon tax promise, says Julia Gillard

Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:03

Within days of denying she'd broken a promise (incredibly) and that suggestions to the contrary were "semantics", AAP reports JULIA Gillard has now admitted she promised there would be no carbon tax during the last election but said circumstances had changed. The scramble to shift the language on an almost daily basis raises one of two or both questions...

Carbon Tax Petition- Crankiest regions so far

Saturday, 26 February 2011 18:39

It's early days, but after just 24 hours our petition participants show NSW as the crankiest state with the proposed carbon tax and the electorate of Macquarie the crankiest region so far.

Wayne Swan refuses to rule out tax on petrol as Julia Gillard backflips on carbon levy

Saturday, 26 February 2011 13:30

TREASURER Wayne Swan has refused to rule a petrol tax in or out of the Federal Government's proposed carbon tax. Mr Swan said it was inappropriate for people to suggest anything was included or excluded from the tax, given that it was still being formulated. See the AAP story reprinted in the Courier Mail.

PM defends backflip as carbon tax fight turns to petrol

Saturday, 26 February 2011 09:46

THE Greens have pushed petrol to the front line in the war over a carbon tax, insisting prices should rise at the bowser as part of the plan to combat pollution, see the full article here.

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Alan Jones and Gillard Clash

Friday, 25 February 2011 19:23

Listen to the full debate - for want of a better word - between Alan Jones and Julia Gillard on the Carbon tax.

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Carbon tax unearths Gillard's royal doppelganger

Friday, 25 February 2011 16:19

Before dawn, Julia Gillard rose. After styling her hair into a warlike, blood-red helmet (and eschewing prayers, for obvious and widely-reported reasons) she rode forth, at twenty minutes past seven, into battle; an interview with Alan Jones. Read the full article by the ABC's Annabelle Crabb here.

Gillard fends off broken promise claims, but admits carbon plan is like a tax

Friday, 25 February 2011 16:07

JULIA Gillard has dismissed as "semantics" suggestions she has broken an election-eve promise ruling out a carbon tax, while admitting her carbon-pricing plan is "effectively like a tax".Confronting her critics today, the Prime Minister conceded prices would rise under her plan to tackle climate change. Read the full article here.

Basin plan forced to put environment above people

Monday, 11 October 2010 16:07

An interesting opinion piece by Professor Judith Sloan,  says while the Water Act talks about "the use and management of the basin water resources in a way that optimises economic, social and environmental outcomes", in practice the Murray Darling plan gives the environment primacy, with residual flows available for other uses. Tell us what you think.