Labor Waste

More taxpayers’ money is being wasted on selling a policy Labor promised not to introduce: A SECRET Labor spin team charged with selling the government’s carbon tax is twice the size of a similar Howard government unit set up to smooth the transition to the GST. The ten-person carbon price implementation team was quietly formed on [...]

Media Release – Senator Simon Birmingham  Millions of taxpayer dollars are going to a cheer squad of organisations supporting Julia Gillard’s carbon tax at the same time as the Government’s taxpayer funded advertising campaign has blown out to twice the announced cost, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Under questioning from [...]

Media Release – Senator Mathias Cormann Julia Gillard is delaying the release of her carbon tax design and costings until after the Budget to avoid the scrutiny of Senate Estimates during two weeks of hearings scheduled for late May 2011. “These will be the last Senate Estimates hearings before the government takes control of the [...]

The future of Whyalla and Port Pirie in South Australia are in doubt under Labor’s carbon tax, the Adelaide Advertiser reports: THE state’s two key industrial cities will be “wiped off the map” by a carbon tax, a major union warns. The tax would strip thousands of jobs from Whyalla and Port Pirie, the Australian [...]