buffer against the carbon tax and a boost to confidence … The move, costing $700 million over four years, raises questions about whether the government will proceed with its planned company tax ...

PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-07 11:32 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

support the family payments without the revenue from the mining tax; or the income tax reductions without the carbon tax; or how the Schoolkids Bonus is any different from the Baby Bonus; or why it opposed company tax cuts in the first place. Put simply, we're yet to hear any economic plans from ...

PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-10 11:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of speaking lies and crap about carbon dioxide … to mount his outrageous assault on freedom of speech”, ... health insurance rebates or Cate Blanchett’s advocacy of a carbon price, Labor and the elites are said ... massive public relations victory during the 2010 debate over the super profits tax. Yet it may signal ...

The Monthly - Nick Dyrenfurth - 2012-05-08 17:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

for the creation of a parliamentary committee to broker the outlines of a carbon tax/emissions trading scheme. ... her carbon tax legislation in July 2011. It is no accident that it was in July 2011 that her ... committee’s suggestion of a resource rent mining tax. The error here was not with the decision ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-29 11:33 - 40 comments - 0 attachments

The carbon tax and Abbott's demolition promises "All that over-developed Abbott musculature, painfully amassed over countless early morning ... (Annabel Crabb, Carbon tax, ETS, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, The Drum) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-08 14:13 - 0 comments

Desperate Labor MPs turning against Gillard  "The implications would be profound, and run broader than Labor's fate. A leadership change could mean an early election. Labor's carbon tax and the mining tax might not see the light ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-03 14:35 - 0 comments

Wednesday, 2 May 2012 - 11:13am General Content Item: Middle Column "Reducing, lessening the impact, or possibly, revoking, the carbon tax: if she stays, it is the one Act ...

PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-02 11:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Gillard passes the carbon tax bill "The passage of the Gillard carbon tax bills constitutes a substantial achievement in political terms, ... (Australian Politics, Carbon tax, Climate Change, The Drum) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-31 14:45 - 0 comments

misleading campaigns waged in recent years against resource taxation reforms and the pricing of carbon pollution. The infamous billionaires’ protest against the mining tax would have been laughed out of town ... in our tax and transfer system to ensure the relief goes to those who need it most. Australia’s plans ...

The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments

secured a mining tax and a price on carbon – reforms that have a better chance of surviving the next ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2012-03-07 15:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

a flat-rate carbon tax. The more you emit, the more you pay.” Admittedly, what Scruton wants is not exactly ... by the conservative Opposition. He wants a tax on products based on the amount of carbon released in the process ... the taxing nation would obtain data on the carbon footprint of every item it imports. Scruton surely doesn’t ...

The Monthly - Peter Singer - 2012-02-08 14:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

the fight against the mining and carbon tax; more broadly the struggle against serious action to combat ... the idea of a new mining tax suggested by a committee headed by that well-known Bolshevik, the Treasury ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-02-08 19:23 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

the passage of the carbon tax two weeks before, on what Deputy Leader Christine Milne called “a green-letter ... votes to one. Asked to name his achievements, Brown nominates first not the carbon tax or control ... until 2.45 am the morning before, seeing through the federal government’s mining tax, which passed ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

The great carbon tax secret: Who are the Misfortune 500? "Can we get a list? No - we can't, according to the Government. The 500 companies ... (Annabel Crabb, Carbon tax, The Drum) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-14 10:09 - 0 comments

of the Liberal Party, he failed. Gillard looked to the Greens for the passage of her carbon tax and renewable ... program – were broadly popular. Even the perhaps clumsily introduced mining tax might have been well ... crisis. Obvious sources of funding do however exist – there is room for a revision of the new tax ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-01-23 05:06 - 13 comments - 0 attachments

the carbon-taxing Julia Gillard, and media oligarch Rupert Murdoch. At the Monthly , we’ve done our best to cover ...

Blog - Monthly Wire - 2011-12-18 17:58 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the carbon tax. His proudest achievements are the 2 million trees planted by his administration, the 500 hectares of city land saved from development, and successfully offsetting all the carbon emissions from ... emissions, Carbon tax, Energy, Floods, Gay Marriage, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Liberal Party, ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

would be able to compromise. Over the negotiations leading to the carbon tax they have shown very ... Gillard’s relations with the Greens, and especially their agreement over the carbon tax, to tarnish Labor ... a self-evident absurdity. He promises, in addition, that he will attempt to repeal the carbon and the mining ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-11-23 10:28 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

in 2009 and, with it, Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership. His opposition to the ETS, and later the carbon tax ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

government’s plans for a Resource Super Profits Tax and carbon tax in recent times, there have been plenty ... the nature of our political system. Tony Abbott’s throwaway suggestion of a plebiscite on the carbon tax ... Australian Politics, Australian Republic, Carbon tax, Compulsory voting, Conscience vote, Elected ...

The Monthly - Lindsay Tanner - 2011-12-02 17:25 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of our tax system as it applies to philanthropy, it is no surprise to learn there may be a handful ... perhaps it’s not so hard to explain why a $26 per tonne carbon price is all the environment lobby dare ask ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2011-10-06 11:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Amidst the heated debate around the introduction of a carbon tax in Australia, leading environmentalist ...

SlowTV - admin - 2011-09-19 16:43 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

of the alternatives put forward by the Coalition. Crabb focuses on Gillard’s about-face on the carbon tax, with no mention of Abbott’s multiple changes of mind. Don’t worry whether a carbon tax is good or bad ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2011-09-01 12:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

motive in Great Britain. Is Gillard’s carbon tax, which gives back to lower- and middle-income households ... and subscribe to his people’s revolt, the carbon tax is the worst thing that ever happened to a nation. ... to be persuaded? Tony Abbott has been pursuing office on a promise of stability. His campaign against the carbon ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Carbon pricing, Carbon tax, CPRS, The Age) ... Carbon pricing: Is this man's job really ... and we make the most carbon-intensive aluminium in the world. Shifting aluminium offshore would lead ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:22 - 0 comments