24 May, 2011
The Prime Minister needs to nominate a ceiling price for her carbon tax.
How high will she go?
Starting at $20 or $30 per tonne? Going on to $60 or $100?
What does Ms Gillard think is too much for Australian manufacturers to bear before they are forced to close up shop?
When asked how she propos...
23 May, 2011
This week is National Manufacturing Week and what do all the following companies have in common? They all say that a go-it-alone carbon tax is bad for Australia. All these manufacturers and supply chain operators have spoken out against this manufacturing-destroying tax:
BlueScope Steel
O...
20 May, 2011
Julia Gillard doesn’t even understand the ramifications of her own carbon tax.
Her extraordinary comment yesterday that the tax won’t have a single impact on food manufacturing companies like Sanitarium is, at best, ignorant.
Ms Gillard needs to seek an urgent briefing from the Australian Fo...
19 May, 2011
Kim Carr has been caught out today, still spruiking the merits of a fund Prime Minister Gillard cut from his portfolio in January.
In a media release today, the Minister states that the Green Car Innovation Fund is “an integral element of the Australian Government’s bold New Car Plan for a Greener ...
18 May, 2011
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and the Federation of Automotive Products Manufacturers all agreed yesterday that the carbon tax will deeply hurt car manufacturing in Australia.
Now even the Federal Secretary of the AMWU Vehicle Division, Ia...
17 May, 2011
A $40 per tonne price on CO2 would be like clearfelling Australian industry, according to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI).
ACCI’s Greg Evans told the Senate Select Committee in Canberra today said that the tax would “be like clearfelling the Australian business community”.
A...
17 May, 2011
More secrets are out: Julia Gillard’s carbon tax threatens to wipe more than $100 million annually away from Australia’s car industry.
Revelations today that new confidential modelling for the Government advocates the introduction of a carbon price of at least $40 per tonne mean that the damage on ...
13 May, 2011
Today the car industry has sent a clear message that the Gillard carbon tax will kill car jobs.
Modelling from PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that the impact could reach $84 million annually. Australian car makers now join a ballooning list of industries who have condemned the carbon tax as economic ...
11 May, 2011
People who have purchased cars under salary sacrificing arrangements and who travel long distances as a matter of course to get to and from work will be penalised by the Government’s changes to the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) rate applied to cars.
Under the new conditions, announced in last ...
11 May, 2011
Another day, another example of Innovation Minister Kim Carr’s dizzying contradictions on innovation, industry and science policies.
A Minister who once said that Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) were “a pillar of the Australian innovation system” has now ripped yet another hole in the budget fo...