July 8, 2012
A WEEK OF CARBON TAX CHAOS, CONFUSION, BACKFLIPS AND BAIL OUTS
Chaos and confusion is what has dominated the first week of the Carbon Tax. So disastrous has the policy been that the Government is already scheming major changes, confirmation that the Opposition’s warning that this is the world’s biggest and b...
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May 7, 2012
Most people would agree that a birth certificate is an important document.
It confirms your existence, describing who you are and by what name you will be known to the world.
Australia has just such a document: the very first map of the continent w...
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April 19, 2012
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has many of the hallmarks of the Victorian Economic Development Corporation (VEDC), which left Victoria in such a disastrous state only two decades ago.
In that context there are four things that we need t...
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April 9, 2012
THE government has announced $1 billion in cash to the firms it has demonised as Australia's largest polluters, the brown-coal producers. This is not money to modernise their plants, to clean up or even close down. This is money to keep the lights ...
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March 8, 2012
The revelations of a $170 million hit to Victorian hospitals under the Carbon Tax, are sadly, just the tip of the iceberg. The reason is very simple. Contrary to the impression given by the Government, this is not just a tax to hit the major greenho...
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February 14, 2012
As the teams of delegations to the Durban climate change conference returned to their countries and everyone took a reflective New Year look at what was achieved, the reality is dawning that rather than the world following Australia down the path of a carbon tax, Australia is becoming increasingly isolated in its approach to climate change. Durban...
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February 2, 2012
The architecture and the tone of a future Coalition Government were laid on the table at the National Press Club this week, when the alternative prime minister set out the framework for government based on five national plans of action. Over the c...
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January 26, 2012
One of the perennial questions asked around the barbecue each Australia Day is: “How did Australia get its name?” It seems such a basic Australian history question but it’s one that people often struggle to answer. For the record, we can thank explorer Matthew Flinders for the naming of our continent. Flinders was the first European to circu...
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November 16, 2011
President Obama's visit raises a single basic challenge for Julia Gillard. Unless the Prime Minister expressly and openly confirms whether the US will have a full national Carbon Tax or Cap and Trade scheme by 2016, she will have failed a bedrock test of leadership. Labor was quick to accuse Tony Abbott of being a coward for being overseas duri...
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October 25, 2011
The carbon tax is an economic failure. It is also an environmental failure. This grand failure comes from the simple fact that while it is enormously expensive, the tax singularly fails to clean up either Australia or the world. In short, it doesn't...
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October 24, 2011
Last month, Rio Tinto’s Australian Managing Director David Peever calmly warned that the carbon tax would: “expose Australian businesses to some of the highest carbon costs in the world, place them at a significant disadvantage and generate a level ...
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October 10, 2011
Click to read Greg Hunt's opinion piece online at The Punch
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August 22, 2011
It is often said of new laws proposed by government that the devil is in the detail. Never was this more true than with the Gillard Government’s draft Carbon Tax laws. We all have just three weeks to examine the legislation, which with supporting do...
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June 29, 2011
* Greg Hunt warned of the risks of poor-quality installations of solar panels on February 18, 2010. He called for an Auditor-General's inquiry into the solar scheme, telling ABC Radio it had been "riddled with mismanagement" and homeowners were at ...
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April 26, 2011
Greg Hunt has written a piece for the ABC's the Drum website on the carbon tax, and on how the government has backed away from its claims of giving all carbon tax revenue to households. Households now stand to get about half the revenue raised. Y...
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