Labor’s reported commitment to yesterday’s meeting of the carbon tax Industry Transitional Assistance Working Group that the 2009 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) assistance package is “now back on the table” means petrol is on the way up or other promises are set to be broken. Labor has now: · stated the carbon…
Labor’s home insulation scheme leaves a sorry tale of destruction and a million homeowners still in the dark. Four installers working on the program died, around 200 house fires are known to have occurred, many businesses have been destroyed, significant numbers of jobs lost and approaching $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds have been…
TOM TILLEY: Simon Birmingham is the acting Opposition spokesman on Climate Change and I spoke to him about today’s story, the mounting opposition to Labor’s carbon tax, just a moment ago. Simon, we’re seeing a growing number of voices joining the chorus of complaint about the Government’s carbon tax. Is the Opposition just another…
LEON BYNER: Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham has visited us in the studio. Simon, tell us what you want the people of South Australia to know. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well Leon, listeners, it’s great to be here and obviously Tony Abbott has highlighted a lot of the key issues around the carbon tax but today we’ve seen…
HOWARD SATTLER: … a proposed carbon tax. The Government is digging its heels in. The Gillard Government just won’t see the light on this one and doesn’t recognise that just about everybody bar it is against this carbon tax sorry, bar it and the Greens but the unions are against it, the employers are…