"As it deals with these issues, the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee could doubtless benefit from the ideas and experience of many in the Coalition"

Why should the coalition or anyone bother with this committee, its conclusion is already decided, it's just the size of the tax in question .. the author is using it as yet another attack on the coalition as if they are the ones raising a big new tax.

Senator Milne made it quite clear, you come to this committee already committed .. and the coalition says they are not .. so they have no place .. fine, the ALP will have to live with the fact they cannot share the culpability, because that's all this sneering attempt to bully the coalition is, more ALP rhetoric and words games, no care about nation building or society .. once again, no plan except to attack the coalition

we've seen the ALP's bipartisan approach, images flashed around the country of PM Rudd's staff turning their backs on Brendon Nelson, then the rest of the ALP supports joining them .. do you think after you all had a giggle that we would forget?

yep, that's politics ALP style .. now you need the coalition to stand beside you so you don't look quite so stupid kowtowing to the greens .. suck it up, you will go down in history as creating this yourselves.

And as for, "no one will suffer except the polluters", how naive do you think we are .. I have seen the polluters, and it is us .. do this BS to us, and we will keep you out of government for a very very long time.

one of the first things you learn in first year economics, is the tax on negative externalities only work if the market can turn to an alternative product for less cost than the tax. if the cost of tax can simply be passed on to consumer no change will occur.
i wish smart people would advance beyond first year economic text books, the world would be safer

The polluters will be taxed, If you are being supplied polluting items as a course of necessity, you will be compensated.
If you purchase non assential items that cause pollution, those items will have a pollution tax imposed on them.
Some people just can,t see past their nose, there,s something sinister hanging on every word. Doesn,t make for good discussion, it becomes imaginary.

Define “pollution” a597. The government classify carbon as pollution.

Is that due to lies or ignorance? The attempt is to tax carbon, which is the basis of all life on Earth.

If this fraud is implemented, then $10bn of taxpayers’ funds per annum will be handed over to the originator of the AGW fraud, the anti Western Civilization body, the United Nations, who propagated the lies on which this scam is based through its puppet, the IPCC.

Fortunately, Australians now recognise the truth, that labelling carbon “pollution” has no scientific basis and is nothing more than a lie aimed at defrauding taxpayers.

This is apart from the fact that human emissions have not been shown to have any but a negligible effect on climate. Our climate patterns have not varied from the days before humans produced emissions. Gore’s lie of CO2 causing warming is now shown by reality to be incorrect. Gore is reminded of this when he appears in public, to chants and placards of “Gore is a Liar” and “Gore is a Fraud”

Good luck to Juliar, the Red Pullet. She will need it to put this one over, because the majority of Australians are now aware of the attempted AGW fraud, and the suffering of farmers through the signing of the fraud based Kyoto Agreement, by her grub of a predecessor.

She may even achieve what Gore has achieved, if she perseveres. I would get a laugh out of that.

Carbon is the basis of all life on earth.
Nature had a balance of carbon in the atmosphere, but now that balance is being compromised.
Oil, Coal the two biggest contributers.
Get off of the merry go round, and have more choices, makes sense doesn,t it. Oil is on the outer, so put the pressure on and see what comes of it.
Nature is not going to come back this time without help.
Mans ever increasing hunger for gadgets has outstripped the growth of nature to fix any further pollutants.