May 22, 2012
- Residents of areas hit by natural disasters such as cyclones and storms could face carbon tax bills for the greenhouse emissions arising from rubbish created by the disaster, a Senate...
May 21, 2012
- An office set up to advise the Premier on climate change policy has had its staff cut nearly in half since Ted Baillieu’s election. The climate change branch within the...
May 17, 2012
- The Environment Court’s ruling that climate change could not be taken into account for coal mining resource consents is being appealed by two environmentalist groups opposed to the mining of...
May 16, 2012
- More than 1.6 million families across the nation will start receiving their share of $325 million in compensation for the carbon tax from today. Families receiving family tax benefit A...
May 15, 2012
- If carbon could be removed from the atmosphere as efficiently as it has been scrubbed from the latest government carbon tax advertisements, our problems would be solved. The federal government...
- Last week’s release of the 2012-13 Budget by the Gillard government reveals an interesting array of environmental and sustainability initiatives in store for Australia over coming years....
May 9, 2012
- The Gillard government has sought to reconnect with voters angry about the carbon tax and the cost of living with a budget that axes planned tax cuts for big business...
- The Gillard government faces a future $3 billion black hole in its carbon tax revenue, with Treasury bucking economists’ predictions and counting on a $29 international carbon price in...
May 4, 2012
- The number of companies hit by the carbon tax will be considerably lower than the 500 previously thought, it emerged yesterday as the Gillard government released its long-awaited hit list...
April 18, 2012
One of the world’s first mandatory greenhouse emissions trading schemes, which has been operating in NSW since 2003 and has taken 141 million tonnes of carbon pollution out of the atmosphere, will be an early victim of Julia Gillard’s carbon tax.
The NSW government will today announce it is closing the GGAS scheme on July 1, when the federal government’s $23-per-tonne carbon tax is implemented.
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