09 May, 2011
Labor’s automotive industry policy remains a mess and as chaotic as ever after its latest Budget leak – that it will introduce Cash for Clunkers Mark II.
Its consideration of an instant writeoff for small businesses for car purchases needs to be greeted with enormous suspicion by Australian taxpaye...
19 April, 2011
Today’s announcement of the appointment of a new Chief Scientist is welcome news.
“I congratulate Ian Chubb on his appointment as Chief Scientist,” Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science Sophie Mirabella said today.
“After three disastrous years of science policy neglect, this is a c...
18 April, 2011
Today’s revelations by Australian food manufacturers nail another of the Government’s carbon tax cons. Under Labor’s carbon tax, more food will be imported and less produced in Australia.
Food and grocery manufacturing is Australia’s largest manufacturing sector. It is worth more than $102 billion ...
15 April, 2011
Paul Howes, AWU secretary, has been shaken out of his carbon con trance. His members and the Coalition have been telling him for months that the steel industry and supporting industry jobs will be exported under a carbon tax.
Until now, Mr Howes had joined former union boss Greg Combet in protectin...
14 April, 2011
Kim Carr claimed last month that the Government would look after industries affected by a carbon tax, and develop a ‘’balanced package’’ to save manufacturing jobs. These were empty words to appease anxious industries and workers.
But Greg Combet has stymied Carr’s claims by detailing that over 50%...
30 March, 2011
Ms Gillard is prepared to put 6,000 Mackay manufacturing jobs on the line as a result of the carbon tax, all to save one job, her own job.
Today Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science, Sophie Mirabella, will be speaking with affected Mackay businesses with Federal Member for Dawson, G...
24 March, 2011
Julia Gillard’s carbon tax cave-in is another dagger through the heart of Australia’s manufacturers.
Her new tax will inevitably subject Australian industry to extra costs that are not faced by our overseas competitors.
Our manufacturers are already facing enormous challenges in remaining internat...
23 March, 2011
Today, thousands of Australians descended upon the lawns of Parliament House to make their voices heard. The protestors who disagree with the Government’s tax plans were ridiculed by the Government.
The Government is trying to bully those who disagree with them into silence.
The Australian people ...
22 March, 2011
Today at the Press Club, the Chair of BlueScope Steel, Graeme Kraehe, slammed the Government’s selective spin on the effect of the carbon tax on manufacturing in Australia.He said “nothing is more certain to condemn us to a rusting museum than the destructive carbon agenda currently being pursued.”H...
22 March, 2011
The Australian Manufacturing Worker’s Union last night launched the single weakest advertising campaign in the history of the trade union movement.
The ad features a softly spoken man saying that Australia manufactures a range of products, that manufacturers need government investment and that uni...