China Post
| 11 months ago
Two-thirds of Australians oppose the country's newly implemented carbon tax, and the government that created it would suffer a crushing defeat if an election were held now, a poll released Monday said. The poll published in Fairfax Media newspapers...
The Independent
| 11 months ago
Australia's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, today sought to calm anxieties over a controversial new carbon tax stoked by what she called a hysterical fear campaign. The signs were, though, that the campaign waged daily for months by the opposition...
Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
Story continues below Yesterday's poll showed that while Labor was trailing the Coalition's primary vote nationally, 28 per cent to 48 per cent, it was even worse in the regions. Outside the capital cities, Labor trails 27 per cent to 50 per cent.
Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
Tony Abbott has an economics degree but, being Tony, I doubt that he's a paid-up member of the union; he probably didn't take part. But after his insistence that the NBN be subject to a cost-benefit analysis, we might have hoped that he would apply...
United Press International
| 11 months ago
Australia's controversial carbon tax, aimed at cutting the country's greenhouse gas emissions, went into effect on Sunday. Under the carbon plan, businesses which emit 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide or the equivalent in other greenhouse gases will be...
The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Reuters The Australian trade minister, Labor's Craig Emerson, breaks out in song in an attempt to to ridicule opposition claims that communities would be wiped off the map by carbon tax Link to this video Australia 's prime minister, Julia Gillard ,...
