Hemp: The multi-use crop that might be the answer to climate change
The recent and spurious debates over carbon tax have filled the airwaves with opposing and venomous soliloquy. In what is the biggest reform to the Australian economy in many years, arguments from the...
View ArticleGillard says energy secure under carbon tax
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is adamant her plan to close coal-fired power stations will not threaten Australia’s energy supply. The Government says it wants to close some power stations, with...
View ArticleSA farm groups slam carbon tax
SOUTH Australian farm groups are concerned about the indirect costs that will flow through to farmers as a result of the Federal Government’s $23 a tonne carbon tax, despite agriculture being excluded...
View ArticleJudge tax after living it: Gillard
JULIA GILLARD has urged a hostile electorate to reserve its judgment on the carbon tax until the 2013 election, by when people would have had a ”lived experience” of the new regime. Acknowledging she...
View ArticleCredits are key to making new tax work
AUSTRALIA will keep spewing out more and more greenhouse gas emissions until the late 2020s even though Julia Gillard has promised to cut them before that. We’ll dig up twice as much coal in 2050 as we...
View ArticleClimate anger dangerous, says German physicist
ANGER against scientists involved in the climate debate is reaching dangerous levels and it’s only a matter of time before one is murdered, says leading German physicist Hans Schellnhuber. Professor...
View ArticleClean energy plan not perfect, but it gets the country moving
“I don’t mind paying a bit on carbon so long as I understand why we’re doing this and what we get.” Despite the misinformation and scaremongering going around, that dad and his family, like millions of...
View Article“There is no need to take any action about carbon dioxide”
TOURING British climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton today told Tony Abbott to drop his Direct Action plan to cut carbon emissions. “The Coalition should in my opinion ditch it because...
View ArticleTony Abbott ‘out of step’ as British PM David Cameron backs tax
LABOR has leapt on a letter from British Prime Minister David Cameron to Julia Gillard backing the carbon tax to attack Tony Abbott as being “out of step with just about everyone around the world” on...
View ArticleCarbon tax set to cost dairy farmers $7000 a year in extra energy costs, loss...
DAIRY farmers face an average hike in energy costs of $7000 and the loss of up to 7.8 per cent of annual income because of the carbon tax. In a sombre outlook for Australia’s third largest rural...
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