More than $17 million has already been spent on setting up the agency that will enforce Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. The costs of setting up and ‘branding’ the new Clean Energy Regulator to be established from 2 April have been revealed…
More than $1 million of taxpayers’ money has been wasted on providing the Gillard Government with public feedback about its unpopular carbon tax, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Climate Change departmental officials revealed, in a Senate Estimates hearing today, that $1.03 million has so far been paid to…
Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars are going to promote the carbon tax to toddlers and union officials as part of Labor’s multi-million dollar carbon tax campaign, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Under questioning from Senator Birmingham in Senate Estimates, the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency…
Taxpayers are still millions of dollars out of pocket from dodgy activities under Labor’s disastrous $2.5 billion Home Insulation Program, linked to at least four deaths and more than 200 house fires. The extent of outstanding payments still being sought was detailed by Climate Change departmental officials in a Senate Estimates hearing under…