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Julia Has To Introduce Carbon Tax “Because of These Ridiculous Green People”

25 Sep

Hearken, oh Labor voter.

Hearken, oh threatened species (Labor MP’s).

Hearken to the words of your own kind – DAAS Kapital’s Tim Ferguson.

h/t Twitterer @wakeup2thelies:

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So You Don’t Think This Is A “Fix”?

21 Sep

BREAKING:

Coalition MPs’ fury over the release of new carbon tax analysis

The release of fresh modelling has sparked uproar during a committee hearing on Labor’s carbon tax bills, with Coalition MPs angry that Treasury analysis was released just minutes before the inquiry convened…

Labor released its updated modelling at 9.09am this morning, just six minutes before the commencement of the joint select committee into the government’s carbon tax bills.

The modelling looks at the impact of Labor’s proposed $23-a-tonne carbon price, following previous studies which used a $20-a-tonne price.

“As expected, the updated modelling shows almost no difference with the previous modelling exercise,” Treasurer Wayne Swan and Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said in a joint statement.

Hmmmm.

The public is given less than a week to review 1,100 pages of legislation, and make submissions to the Joint Select Committee.

The Treasury modelling used as the basis for economic argument supporting the legislation’s rationale, is withheld.

Revised modelling at the true set price is released 6 minutes before Treasury appears to face Parliamentary scrutiny.

And a 15% difference (increase) between the previously modelled price, and the actual price, will make “almost no difference”.

Riiiiiiigggght.

If you believe that, then you’re clearly a Blind Man, and I’ve got a wedding ring to sell you … that’s actually a rat’s arsehole.

A fitting metaphor for this government.

 

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Zen And The Art Of Environmental Maintenance

20 Sep

For all those who “believe” in the Warmageddonist faith.

And.

For our Green-Labor government, who constantly repeat the refrain in their mutually-dependent and mutually-contradictory Clean Energy bills, that these “ensure compliance with section 55 of the Constitution”:

“You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogma or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”

– Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Sign The Petition – Carbon Tax High Court Challenge

19 Sep

* The following submission to the Parliament’s Joint Select Committee will be forwarded on Wed 21st Thur 22nd September 2011. Please co-sign in Comments below.

UPDATE: Thank you to all … comments now closed.

The Secretary
Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Clean Energy Future Legislation
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Australia

22 September 2011

Dear Sir,

REFERENCE: Clean Energy Bill 2011, Clean Energy Unit Issue Charges Bills 2011, Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Bill 2011, and the Australian Constitution s.51 and s.55

We the undersigned would draw the Joint Select Committee’s attention to the above mentioned Bills, insofar as they appear to represent breaches of the Australian Constitution s.51 and s.55.

Should the government press forward with passage of the above mentioned legislation in the Parliament, we the undersigned advise that injunctions will be sought preventing the issue and/or the auction of carbon Units, and also preventing the issue of Clean Energy payments (Household Assistance), until such time as the constitutionality of key points of the legislation can be tested before the Courts.

Sincerely,

Colin McKay
Concerned citizen
Registered voter
Electorate of Charlton
PO Box 6018
MOUNT HUTTON NSW 2290
Australia

Michele Kells
Bunbury, WA 6230

Lyndsay Farlow
Port Macquarie, NSW 2444

Jo-Ann Hildebrand
Perth, WA 6000

Meredith Thiessen
Dodges Ferry, TAS 7173

Sean Morrison
Greenacres, SA 5086

Hannah Jorgensen
Biddaddaba, QLD 4275

Colin Ely
Blackburn, VIC 3130

Laurence Wynen
Coffs Harbour, NSW 2450

Chris Foster
Adelaide, SA 5000

Justin Downie
Cooma, NSW 2630

Philip Hingston
Eastwood, NSW 2122

Veronica Sidhu
Camberwell, VIC 3124

Tracey Watts
Brisbane, QLD 4000

David Tan
Rowville, VIC 3178

Patricia Lightfoot
Armidale, NSW 2350

Shirley Cocks
Murray Bridge, SA 5253

Richard Eichhorn
West End, QLD 4101

Mike J Warr
Kirribilli, NSW 2061

Geoff Brown
Ourimbah, NSW 2258

Ben Williamson
Baulkham Hills, NSW 2153

Phil Schultz
Glenwood, NSW 2768

Sonja Schultz
Glenwood, NSW 2768

Phillip Cummings
Neutral Bay, NSW 2089

Neil Wilson
Epping, NSW 2121

Don Anderson
Sydney, NSW 2000

Vince Schultz
Maclean, NSW 2463

JR Edward
Glen Waverley, VIC 3150

Brian Haselum
Maclean, NSW 2463

Anthony Grizaard
Perth, WA 6000

Chris Kauffmann
Sunshine Coast, QLD 4518

Cliff Rogers
Brisbane, QLD 4000

Michael Petterson
Braunstone, NSW 2460

Philip Pitts
Melbourne, Victoria 3004

Philip Slade
Broome, WA 6726

Ess Grubb
Bribie Island, QLD 4507

Thomas Harnell
Fernvale, Qld 4306

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Davidson, NSW 2085

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Gulgong, NSW 2852

Peter Heuscher
Cooroibah, QLD 4565

Clive Shepherd
Morayfield, QLD 4506

Betty Whiffin
North Turramurra, NSW 2074

Lorraine Tebbutt
Romsey, VIC 3434

Kerry Southerden
Welby, NSW 2575

Adam Davidson
Melbourne, VIC 3004

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McDowall, QLD 4053

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Bribie Island, QLD 4507

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Collaroy Plateau NSW 2097

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Waterloo, NSW 2017

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Northern NSW
New England Electorate

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Warradale, SA 5046

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Liverpool, NSW 2170

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Blackett Mt Druitt, NSW 2770

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Blackett Mt Druitt, NSW 2770

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Templestowe Lower, VIC 3107

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Hervey Bay, QLD 4655

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Hobart, TAS 7000

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Tregear, NSW 2770

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Wantirna, Vic 3150

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Modbury Heights, SA 5092

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Sherwood, Qld 4075

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Bracken Ridge, QLD 4017

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Kilmore, VIC 3764

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Coolangatta, QLD 4225

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Morayfield, QLD 4506

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Cameron Park, NSW 2285

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Nowra, NSW 2541

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Minyama, QLD 4575

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Galong, NSW 2585

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Broadview, SA 5083

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Chatswood, NSW 2067

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Kempsey, NSW 2440

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Brisbane QLD 4000

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Sherwood, QLD 4075

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Alexandria, NSW 2015

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Indooroopilly, QLD 4068

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Crookwell, NSW 2583

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Beachmere, Qld 4510

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Mitchelton, QLD 4053

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Wulguru, QLD 4814

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Hewett, SA 5118

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Wallsend, NSW 2287

Gordon Hastings
Millswood, SA 5034

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Marangaroo, WA 6064

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Duffy, ACT 2611

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Albion, VIC 3020

John Holliday
Tallai, Qld 4213

Thomas Reid
Brisbane, Qld 4172

Margaret Crooks
Tranmere SA 5073

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Linley Point 2066

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Kulnura, NSW 2250

Clive Shepherd
Morayfield, QLD 4506

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Cygnet, TAS 7112

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Cygnet, TAS 7112

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Grange, QLD 4051

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Tamborine, QLD 4270

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Calista, WA 6167

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Charlestown, NSW 2290

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Castle Hill, NSW 2154

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Peregian Beach, QLD 4573

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Creswick, VIC 3363

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Glenwood, NSW 2768

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Brighton VIC 3185

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Five Dock, NSW 2046

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Mitcham, VIC 3132

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Aberfoyle Park, SA 5159

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Riverview, QLD 4304

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Bayswater, WA 6053

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Kogarah, NSW 2217

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Blackett, NSW 2770

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Mt Barker, SA 5251

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Newtown, NSW 2042

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Morphett Vale, SA 5162

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Alfords Point, NSW 2234

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Niagara Park, NSW 2250

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Burleigh, QLD 4220

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Newcastle, NSW 2300

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This Is How We Will Stop The Carbon Tax

19 Sep

Remember the “Malaysian Solution”?

Millions of Australians hated it. And rightly so.

And yet, the government pressed ahead anyway.

What stopped them?

No, not protests.

Not “people power”.

The Malaysian Solution was felled in the Courts.

And I suggest to you, dear reader, that it is the only way to fell the government’s carbon tax legislation too.

Regular readers will know that I wrote a blog nearly two months ago detailing the illegality of the government’s draft legislation – The Carbon Pricing Scheme Is Unconstitutional.

And the final legislation is essentially the same. Indeed, it includes additional key phrases effectively conceding the unconstitutionality of the legislation, and the government’s deliberate structuring of multiple bills in order to defeat circumvent the clear statement and intent of the Constitution.

So, I believe that it can be stopped in the Courts.

Although the government is presently railroading the legislation through Parliament, they have doffed their cap to the idea of “democracy” by appointing a Joint Select Committee to receive submissions on the legislation. Closing this Thursday … get the feeling they’re in a rush?

Below is a draft submission to the JSC that I have written.  Your comments, suggestions, constructive criticisms are invited:

The Secretary
Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Clean Energy Future Legislation
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Australia

21 September 2011

Dear Sir,

REFERENCE: Clean Energy Bill 2011, Clean Energy Unit Issue Charges Bills 2011, Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Bill 2011, and the Australian Constitution s.51(ii) and s.55

We the undersigned would draw the Joint Select Committee’s attention to the above mentioned Bills, insofar as they appear to represent breaches of the Australian Constitution s.51(ii) and s.55.

Should the government press forward with passage of the above mentioned legislation in the Parliament, we the undersigned advise that injunctions will be sought preventing the issue and/or the auction of carbon Units, and also preventing the issue of Clean Energy payments (Household Assistance), until such time as the constitutionality of key points of the legislation can be tested before the Courts.

Sincerely,

*********
[Name]
[Address]

Thoughtful readers will see the strategic rationale behind this submission.

The government has included “poison pills” in their legislation in order to make it difficult to repeal.

As one example, by clearly stating that carbon Units are the “personal property” of the holder/purchaser, the government aims to confer a property right. One that may require compensation in order to remove.

Seeking a High Court injunction/s to prevent the issuing/auctioning of carbon permits (Units), and also preventing the issue of household assistance (compensation), will serve to neutralise the “poison pills” that the government has included in their legislation until such time as the constitutionality of the legislation can be tested in Court.

(UPDATE: And may serve to delay the carbon tax until after a new election is called, or triggered in May 2012 by Andrew Wilkie?)

If you wish to support this submission, please so advise and give your full name and location in Comments below.  I will add your details to the submission here.

If you are a lawyer/barrister and wish to assist with bringing a motion for an injunction/s, please so advise and provide contact details below.

Many thanks.

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Barnaby On Fire

7 Sep

Is Barnaby going to the Lower House … via Tony Windsor’s seat?

The msm love to think so:

Queensland Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce has given another hint he’s contemplating running for the federal seat of New England in NSW, currently held by independent MP Tony Windsor.

Senator Joyce on Tuesday described Mr Windsor as “the most able lieutenant of the Labor Party”.

New England was a conservative seat and its voters expected a conservative representative, Senator Joyce said.

“At times they believed that Mr Windsor was going to be more conservative than the conservatives, (but) where he ended up was more left than the left,” the opposition’s regional development spokesman told reporters in Canberra.

“That’s something that’s just not going to fly in New England.

“It’s the same as if someone in the Port of Melbourne decided they were in the National Party – it’d be a very brief experience.”

When asked if he was still considering running for Mr Windsor’s seat at the next election Senator Joyce replied: “I’m not thinking about running in the Port of Melbourne.”

Read into that what you will … the msm certainly are.

For mine, yet another hilarious Joyceism is the real highlight of this story:

The outspoken Queenslander also weighed into the debate over the Labor leadership on Tuesday, saying the government didn’t seem to have its mind on the game.

“Who they stick out the front as their figurehead is really irrelevant. It’s the mangled carving on the front of a sinking boat. Who cares?”

Want more?

Here’s Barnaby on 2GB radio telling it like it is. As usual.

Unmissable.

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Barnaby: Government Must Come Clean On Carbon Tax

23 Aug

Media Release – Senator Barnaby Joyce, 23 August 2011:

Government must come clean on carbon tax’s impact on Regional Australia

The Australian Government must follow the lead of the Queensland Labor government and release modelling of the carbon tax’s impact on regional Australia said Senator Joyce today.

“I applaud the Queensland government’s efforts to at least release modelling showing the impact of the carbon tax on regional Australia” said Senator Joyce.

“To date the Federal Labor government has released no such modelling. How can you buy a product when you don’t know what is being sold? How can you vote for a tax when you don’t know its effect on your people?

“Let’s use a doctor analogy. You go to the doctor, he says that I have a major operation I want you to undergo on all of your vital organs and it’s going to be really, really good for you.

“You ask him to tell you what are the downsides of the operation and he says sorry I can’t tell you they’re highly confidential. You also later find out that the operation is going to have no effect on your health whatsoever, it is merely a gesture.

“Now a second opinion from a whole lot of other doctors, from similar fields, is telling you that the operation could actually be really, really dangerous.

“When asked in Question Time today, Senator Penny Wong said that the government had released ‘pages and pages’ of economic modelling, but none of these show the impact on regional Australia.

“The Federal Labor Government should follow the lead of Queensland Labor and release modelling of the carbon tax’s impact on regional Australia. Mr Windsor and Mr Oakeshott, who purport to represent regional Australia, should call on the government to do just this.

Economic modelling released by the Queensland Government today reveals that regional Queensland will be the epicentre of the carbon tax detriment to future prosperity. The Rockhampton and Gladstone area will see economic activity fall by 8.2 per cent under a carbon tax, the Mackay area by 5.7 per cent, double to triple the impact of the carbon tax on the rest of Australia.

“Queensland Treasury’s own modelling shows that Queensland will be hit the hardest by a carbon tax.”

Queensland Treasury estimates that there would be 41,000 fewer Queensland jobs by 2050 under a carbon tax. Economic output is predicted to be 3.5 per cent lower in Queensland in 2050 under a carbon tax, compared to 2.5 per cent lower in Australia.

“Why are Anna Bligh and Andrew Fraser supporting a carbon tax that targets Queensland’s vital organs, its coal, electricity, manufacturing and tourism industries?

Earlier this year Anna Bligh said she would be “putting Queensland first” when responding to the carbon tax. I am glad she is not my economic doctor but unfortunately for this operation Julia Gillard is.

I’ve got this sinking feeling that Julia Gillard is about to tell me that she has “full confidence” in a carbon tax.

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Barnaby: Tomorrow Is D-Day For Anna Bligh

18 Aug

Media Release – Senator Barnaby Joyce, 18 August 2011:

Bligh’s day of delivery for Queensland looms

The carbon tax heat will turn to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh when the Council of Australian Governments meets in Canberra tomorrow.

Leader of The Nationals Warren Truss and Nationals’ Senate leader Barnaby Joyce – both Queenslanders – are calling on the Premier to make good on her pledge to ‘put Queensland first’ by rejecting the carbon tax.

On May 22 the Premier told reporters: ‘I think Queenslanders, like other Australians, want to see the details of the carbon tax’. She then pledged to put the interests of Queensland first, adding: ‘I look forward to (seeing) those details and when we do we will be putting Queensland first’.

“Tomorrow is D-Day for the Premier,” Mr Truss said. “Anna Bligh can put Queensland first by putting Julia Gillard and her carbon tax last.

“In fact, Federal Treasury figures reveal that the carbon tax will have its biggest impact on Queensland, with the state’s bottom line gutted to the tune of $250 billion – the equivalent of losing an entire year out of the state’s production.

“Even Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has conceded the asset value of the state’s electricity generators will plummet by $1.7 billion. The Queensland Resources Council estimates that the state stands to lose $1 billion in coal royalties, as well as shedding more than 13,000 jobs.”

Senator Joyce added: “The epicentre of the effect of a carbon tax is Queensland. Our state’s major export is the major export of the nation, it is coal, it is carbon.

“Why should the person in Ipswich pay more for power for something that is not going to change the climate? Nobody wants this tax and Anna Bligh is crucial in trying to stop it. She can make the difference and stop this tax.

“All she has to do is to stand up for Queensland, not for Sussex St, in Canberra tomorrow.”

Today’s release of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ employment data shows that unemployment in regional Queensland has increased by almost 1 percentage point over the last year – climbing from 5.4% in July 2010 to 6.3% today.

Areas that have been hardest hit include:

§ Townsville / Mt Isa area rose from 2.9% to 7.5%.

§ Wide Bay up from 6.5% to 10.7%.

§ Gold Coast increased from 5.6% to 6.7%.

§ The unemployment rate in Cairns remains high at 8.2%.

This is the wrong time to impose a carbon tax on regional Queensland.

Anna Bligh needs to join with Ted Baillieu, Barry O’Farrell and Colin Barnett in telling Julia Gillard to dump her destructive tax. If the Premier is fair dinkum about the interests of Queensland she’ll reject the carbon tax tomorrow.

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Kohler: A Surplus Of Political Stupidity

14 Aug

From Business Spectator:

Yesterday’s weak employment figures confirm what my colleague Robert Gottliebsen has been arguing for months: that the economy – global and domestic – is much weaker than anyone thought. Forcing the budget back into surplus by 2013 by cutting spending or raising taxes is probably a stupid idea, just as raising interest rates must now be off the agenda.

But the Opposition and the media will now ensure that the most important issue is not how the settings should be adjusted for changed circumstances, but whether the government breaks a promise.

Same goes for the carbon tax. If Oliver Marc Hartwich in today’s KGB roundtable is only half right about the dire future of the European Union and the euro, introducing a carbon tax next July would be the silliest idea imaginable.

All three of the economists on the roundtable – Hartwich, Warren Hogan of ANZ and Su-Lin Ong of RBC – are pessimistic about the global economy. They are not alone. The very best that can be hoped for is that the European and American economies muddle through this new debt crisis and they end up with low growth rather than a recession.

…

In the circumstances, should the government press on with the planned carbon tax next year? Of course not, unless there is some miraculous renaissance of the developed world economy between now and then.

That looks extremely unlikely. Yet at a Town Hall forum in Perth yesterday, the prime minister vowed to press on with the carbon tax, because Treasury has advised that the economy will continue to grow even if it is imposed.

Right. That’ll be the modelling then. That model on the computers in Langton Crescent, Parkes, in Canberra, a million or so miles from the real world.

Well said.

Very pleasant to see that Alan Kohler has about as much faith in Treasury modelling as I do:

Why Would Any Sane Person Believe Treasury’s Carbon Tax Modelling When Their Budget Forecasting Record Is This Bad?

The Pricing Carbon Choir – Why Should *Any* Sane Person Trust Economists After The GFC?

And as much as Barnaby Joyce does:

Barnaby Bamboozles Chief Of Climate Change Modelling Unit … Again

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Barnaby: Carbon Tax Not The Answer For Queensland

11 Aug

Media Release – Senator Barnaby Joyce, 11 August 2011:

Jobs figures show that carbon tax is not the answer for Queensland

Employment data released today reveals that Queensland now has the highest unemployment rate in the country. This is the worst time for Queensland to be facing the prospect of a carbon tax, Senator Joyce said today.

“The unemployment rate in July increased in Queensland to 5.6%, from 5.2% in June, double the increase experienced nationally. Queensland now has a higher unemployment rate than any other State. In total, an additional 10,000 Queenslanders became unemployed over the past month.

“This is an appalling outcome when you think of the minerals boom that Queensland is meant to be experiencing. When small businesses tell you there is not much business around they are not joking.

“The prospect of a carbon tax is killing jobs in Queensland. If the Labor government moves forward with a carbon tax they have will have moved from being incompetent to culpable.

“Surely someone in the Labor party has a television set and can see what is going on in the world. Now is the not the time for a carbon tax that will raise costs for every small business but have zero effect on the temperature of the globe.

“This is a one vote Parliament. We are looking for just one Labor party member to stand up for Queensland and vote against the carbon tax. Let’s stop this charade and do what the vast majority want.

“Since the Howard government left office the unemployment rate in Queensland has increased by 50%, from 3.8% (in November 2007) to 5.6% today. There are over 50,000 extra Queenslanders unemployed since the Rudd-Gillard government came into power.

“Queensland was once the state of development. An earlier generation built dams, electrified the railway lines, developed the Gold Coast and opened multiple international airports. Thanks to Labor it is now the State with the lowest economic credentials, where bats seem to have more rights than people, where farmers have had their rural soul sold by State Labor governments, so that coal seam gas companies can run over their land while paying 75 cents for every $1000 they extract, where fishing has become an immoral past-time, where the economic future for aboriginal people has been taken away so they can live on a “wild river”, where the major industry of the north, the live cattle trade, can be shut down over night because apparently the nation is run by Four Corners, not the government.

“When green regulations become more important than creating jobs, the effects are there for all to see. Queensland has the highest unemployment in the country and public debt heading towards $85 billion.”

More information – Matthew Canavan 0458 709433

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