But is it OK to tell the customer how much the carbon tax has influenced the price rise? It must be, because my energy supplier has done so: electricity is to go up by 17.6 per cent, and 14 of that 17.6 per cent is due to the carbon tax.

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...But of course, the mass of the masses will simply do what all others civilisations before them have done; survive from one day to the next, (with fingers crossed).

Great post; as well as introducing an economy killing tax this government is also intent on stopping any criticism of its destruction of Australia.

It is though Australia is being invaded from within as well without by the 'asylum seekers'.

Is it an offence under the various carbon tax governence and enforcement procedures to call this government a traitorus force?

The enormous efforts the ALP has gone through to entrench this ludicrous tax and protect itself from criticism for doing so indicate just how firmly they are wedged under the thumb of their Green puppeteers. This administration will go down in history as one of the blackest periods in Labor history.

Just as it had to purge itself of both Communists and Catholics in the 1950s and 1960s to re-emerge as a political force in the 1970s, so the ALP will have to purge itself of Green lunacy to re-emerge after the next Abbott administration -- if it ever does.

Can I suggest the following form of words?

Dear customer we have regrettably been forced to increase our prices. The reasons behind this increase are a general increase in our costs in providing you with a quality service. These costs include increase in wages, increase in price of raw materials and in the price of fuel (gas, electricity). We can are not able to proportion the exact amount due to each of these several factors; undoubtedly the CARBON TAX is also a contributing factor.

Jon J,

At what age do you think Tony Abbott might choose to retire as PM?