17 March, 2011
If Julia Gillard thinks that sending steelworks offshore and retraining some steel workers to maintain solar plants is going to improve either the environment or jobs in Australia, she continues to be deluded.
At the end of the last sitting period in the Parliament in response to a question regardi...
11 March, 2011
It is not only Prime Minister Gillard who is at loggerheads with Mr Rudd. There is also a big conflict brewing between two cabinet colleagues over the carbon tax. Who would you be pinning your hopes on winning: Minister Emerson, the Government’s chief attacker or Minister Carr, the beleaguered Indus...
09 March, 2011
It has been 13 days since Prime Minister Gillard forced the carbon tax on Australia but Industry Minister Kim Carr is silent and nowhere to be seen.
Manufacturers and other businesses are waiting for Mr Carr to justify another cost to running a business in Australia.
There was a time when Mr Carr ...
08 March, 2011
26.3% of employees in manufacturing (261,000) are women and a whopping 56.6% of employees in retail (707,000) are women. 11% of board members are women but raising board participation will do nothing for women if the much greater numbers already engaged in the industries lower down the remuneration ...
04 March, 2011
Australia’s scientists continue to be ignored by the Gillard Government.
A key union has now backed the Coalition’s criticism of the Government’s approach to science, with the CSIRO Staff Association launching a withering attack today.
CSIRO Staff Association President Michael Borgas has bee...
02 March, 2011
Under the Government’s proposed carbon tax the cost of production will rise: everything from transport, fuel, electricity, refrigeration and lighting to operating machines will cost more.
Much of manufacturing is operating on thin margins and cannot absorb another cost increase. Locally manufacture...
23 February, 2011
After turning up late to his own Estimates hearing today, Kim Carr flew into a rage about shadow minister Sophie Mirabella wanting to record the proceedings of the day.
It is the role of the Opposition to scrutinise the work of Government and therefore it would be logical to be able to have a recor...
23 February, 2011
In Senate Estimates today, Chief Scientist Penny Sackett confirmed that she has never met with or been asked to meet with Prime Minister Gillard.
We now know it was the fake Julia when she claimed an interest in science. Instead she has an arrogant disregard for the Office of the Chief Scientist.
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18 February, 2011
Minister Carr repeatedly denied that his R&D bill, tax credit would slash government support for business R&D in Australia. Today’s report in the Financial Review confirms he has been blatantly misleading industry.
Carr has always clamed that his proposed new research and development tax in...
01 February, 2011
Figures out today pointing to another decline in Australian manufacturing show Industry Minister Kim Carr is struggling again. This minister has been slapped down in recent cuts to his portfolio, and today we see more job josses in manufacturing. Australian Industry Group – PWC Australian Performanc...