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BEFORE THE POLL: WHAT LABOR USED TO SAY ABOUT A CARBON TAX
Ms Gillard claimed: ―There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.‖
(Channel 10, 16 August 2010)
(Channel 10, 16 August 2010)
On the Friday before the election Ms Gillard stated categorically: ―I rule out a carbon tax.‖ (Front page of The Australian, 20 August 2010)
Wayne Swan: ―What we rejected is this hysterical allegation that somehow we are moving towards a carbon tax.” (Meet the Press, 15 August 2010)
Mr Swan: ―We have made our position very clear, we have ruled it out.” (7.30 Report, 12 August 2010)
AFTER THE POLL: GILLARD HAS BROKEN THAT PROMISE
On 24 February 2011, Ms Gillard, flanked by the Greens, announced she wanted to introduce a carbon tax on 1 July 2012. She said this might morph into an Emissions Trading Scheme 3 to 5 years later. But it could be with us for years.
A $26 a tonne carbon price would:
Push up electricity bills by an extra $300 a year, per household
Petrol would rise by 6.5 cents a litre
Gas would rise by up to 10 per cent in the first year
Groceries would rise
Manufacturing jobs would be put at risk
Push up electricity bills by an extra $300 a year, per household
Petrol would rise by 6.5 cents a litre
Gas would rise by up to 10 per cent in the first year
Groceries would rise
Manufacturing jobs would be put at risk
Ms Gillard won’t say what the carbon price would be, or what compensation would be offered to households and businesses, or whether petrol would be included, or even when / if it would turn into a floating-price ETS
Nobody can now trust any significant statements from Julia Gillard
Labor is using the hung parliament as a weak excuse for a carbon tax
Nobody can now trust any significant statements from Julia Gillard
Labor is using the hung parliament as a weak excuse for a carbon tax
WHAT ABOUT PETROL?
Ms Gillard was cagey about the inclusion of petrol in her carbon tax when she announced it on February 24, 2011. She said the matter was yet to be discussed and resolved – her own paper however, says it is on the table.
But Greens MP Adam Bandt let the cat out of the bag when he told Sky News on February 25:
―We are very pleased that the paper that's been released and the agreement that we've reached has
transport as being included in a carbon pricing mechanism.‖
Ms Gillard was cagey about the inclusion of petrol in her carbon tax when she announced it on February 24, 2011. She said the matter was yet to be discussed and resolved – her own paper however, says it is on the table.
But Greens MP Adam Bandt let the cat out of the bag when he told Sky News on February 25:
―We are very pleased that the paper that's been released and the agreement that we've reached has
transport as being included in a carbon pricing mechanism.‖
Soon after the carbon tax announcement, Greens climate spokeswoman Christine Milne pushed for petrol to be included in the scheme, which earned a rebuke from Ms Gillard. She said on Sunday February 27 that Senator Milne’s comments on the inclusion of petrol ―were not appropriate in the sense these discussions are still to come‖.
IS IT A TAX?
Ms Gillard has since admitted her fixed-price carbon scheme would indeed function like a tax.
It is a tax, it is the definition of a tax. She just cannot bring herself to call it a tax.
Labor’s carbon tax: $114 billion between now and 2020 (according to Treasury modelling of the CPRS)
Ms Gillard has since admitted her fixed-price carbon scheme would indeed function like a tax.
It is a tax, it is the definition of a tax. She just cannot bring herself to call it a tax.
Labor’s carbon tax: $114 billion between now and 2020 (according to Treasury modelling of the CPRS)
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