Australians only have until this Thursday 22 September to make submissions to the shotgun parliamentary inquiry into Julia Gillard’s carbon tax. The Gillard Government thinks it’s reasonable for Australians to review and comment on over 1,100 pages of carbon tax legislation in a matter of days, having only called for submissions in Saturday’s…
The Gillard Government must release in full its updated carbon tax modelling, and do so well before Treasury’s appearance before a Parliamentary inquiry this Wednesday, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Treasury officials have been scheduled to appear this Wednesday morning before the Joint Select Committee’s inquiry into the…
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: What we have today is new data from the [Australian] Trade and Industry Alliance that demonstrates that nine out of ten Australian jobs in manufacturing are in industries that will receive no compensation under the carbon tax. Every Australian job in the services sector is in an industry, in a business that will receive…
GARY HARDGRAVE: Simon Birmingham is a Liberal Senator from South Australia and he says only three days left if you want to lodge something on the and I’m going to use the word again carbon tax submission. I hate using the so called ‘C-bomb’. Simon Birmingham joins me. Only three days left what can…
HOWARD SATTLER: And if you think the Government wouldn’t manipulate the support or otherwise for this [carbon] tax, this series of tax bills there’s 18 of them, by the way listen to this. They total 1,100 pages of legislation. Guess how long you’ve got to respond to make submissions you, if you’re an organisation…