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Not content with his scare campaign on carbon pricing, the Opposition Leader Tony Abbott this week recklessly talked down the Australian economy, hypocritically opposed the Gillard Government’s $300 million Steel Transformation Plan and misled small business owners.
Claim 1:
“[The Steel Transformation Plan] is not about structural adjustment of the steel industry, it’s just [...]
Every living Liberal Leader supported a carbon price. Mr Abbott has supported a carbon price. Over half of all Liberal MP’s support a carbon price. It’s time for Mr Abbott to admit what everybody knows – that the Liberals will not rollback the carbon price.
I want to say thank you. Thank you to all the Party Members and supporters like you who have campaigned long and hard to put a price on carbon pollution.
We should all be proud that today the House of Representatives voted to take action on climate change and pass the Clean Energy Future Bills. [...]
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The Opposition Leader’s frenetic scare campaign over carbon pricing continued this week.
Tony Abbott made a number of inaccurate and deceptive claims which show he does not regard the truth as being important in public life.
Claim 1:
“When people buy their carbon permits abroad, rather than off the Australian Government, they’re opening up an [...]
Continue Reading →The Opposition Leader persists with his campaign of public deception on carbon pricing.
This week Tony Abbott continued trying to frighten workers by making extreme predictions that entire industries would be shut down. He also brazenly misrepresented federal Treasury’s views on his own discredited subsidies-for-polluters policy.
Claim 1:
“Now, if the carbon tax goes ahead [...]
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An article in the SMH today highlight’s Tony Abbott’s scare campaign about job losses is unfounded.
BHP are predicting the resources industry will need an extra 170,000 workers over the coming years. Its a far cry from the job losses and closing mines that Tony Abbott has been predicting.
You can read the full [...]
Continue Reading →Today I introduced into the House of Representatives the first of Labor’s Bills that will create a price on carbon. It’s an historic day for our nation, especially those of you who have campaigned for years calling for action on climate change. This is a great Labor achievement.
The Australian economy will continue to prosper [...]
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SMH reports on Climate Change minister Greg Combet’s call to Tony Abbott to stop impeding action on climate change.
Here’s what Greg Combet had to say:
“It has fundamentally been the destructive and opportunistic behaviour of the Leader of the Opposition that has impeded this Parliament dealing with this issue,”
“He attacks the scientists, he [...]
Continue Reading →A new photo-voltaic solar array at the Australian National University (ANU) will reduce the campus’s carbon emissions, feed energy back into the grid and help educate the community about energy conservation measures.
Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell, today unveiled the 14.28 kilowatt array – located on the Concessions Building of [...]
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Yesterday, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard were in Australia and met with Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Jose Manuel Barroso backed Australia’s plan to put a price on carbon pollution saying in their experience in Europe a carbon price was the most cost-efficient way to reduce carbon pollution, but [...]
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