Fuel excise rising will only force prices to increase across the board.

579,

So the worm has turned. After spending so much time claiming that the carbon tax would not force up prices, now the indexing the fuel tax which costs a tiny fraction of the carbon tax will?

What a hypocrite!

Yes SM, they are hilarious aren't they.

They'll say anything that might suit their bitch of the moment, & are too dumb to remember what they were claiming yesterday.

All Abbott has done is cover the costs of the carbon tax without any benefit from removing the carbon tax. Fuel excise will greatly overtake overtake what the carbon price cost.
The cost of power rose on the back of the demolition of the carbon price.

Rhrosty I'm not really disagreeing with you, just pointing out why the old ways don't work.

A mate was transferred to Brisbane from Gladstone a while back. They closed the milk factory. Reducing supply, & increasing costs now mean it is cheaper to freight that milk to Brisbane for processing, then back for sale. That is ridiculous but true evidently.

30 years ago there were 12 dairies around the small town of Howard. When labouring on the council 38 hours a week paid more than the dairy earned gross, working 75 hours a week, the kids refused to stay on the farms, & they all closed down, to be sold as hobby farms.

120 citrus orchards closed for the same reason. One proud old orchardists was told to rip out those stupid trees. He wanted to sell to retire, when his sons would not take the place as a gift. The agents said it was worth more bare, than with 40 acres of productive oranges & mandarins.

His grand father was famous for developing that top quality strain of mandarin. Who cares, they come from California today.

I was looking at some photos of Maryborough Qld recently. One was of the old flower mill, established it proudly boasted, in 1880. closed these 35 years.

Wouldn't it be great if Bass is right, & we have to go back to living & producing with in horse & dray distance of everything. Hope we still have enough power to drive a little crane, to get me onto a horse, or into a sulky. My knees won't do it any more.

Don't worry, government is going to run the country with the fuel tax, oh sorry "excise", and probably an increase in GST as well.

I see APEC the economic forum is dealing with flight M17.

And the G20 is going to grow productivity.
What sort of fertilizer might they use for that?