Ah, just wait until those dairy farmers get clobbered with those
extra charges for running their dairies, then get clobbered again when milk
processors have to pay to create milk powder, which is where most of our milk goes.
It all comes off their bottom line.
Then all the small businesses facing extra power charges as they
struggle to survive.

It doesen't take a large percentage to swing an election. I
actually prefer Julia to Tony as people, but the Govt has shot
itself in the foot bigtime on this one. People vote with their
wallets and there is no way that the Govt can argue that Australians
should pay more for electricity, but meantime we'll ship the coal
that we now don't burn to China, so that they can make cheap
electricity.

NSB> ...but in W.A. most of the people are behind the carbon tax,<<

Really, is that a fact, someone should tell the Labor opposition in WA this revelation.
AAP
"West Australian Opposition Leader Eric Ripper has suggested the federal government's proposed carbon tax is responsible for his poor showing in the latest poll".

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/nbn-retail-price-revealed-up-to-18995month-20110721-1hqbn.html

It has just been revealed that we will be paying double for NBN connections as we are presently paying for ASDL.

Labor's financial incompetence rides again. The NBN is the Pink Batts and school halls on steroids.

Our Digger Nation's Defence.

Support Friday the 29th of July as an 'Australian Carbon Tax National Sickie'. Please spread the word far and wide, and enjoy your day of National inaction.

Resulting from the state's failure to preserve, against superordinate authoritarian coercion, the overall best interests of our Nation, exercise of sovereignty transferred to the state by majority consent of the Australian people has become subject to the question of legitimacy. In order to reaffirm the mutual obligations inherent within our society's social contract, our Nation's first step shall be to 'dig a toe in'

NSB, I would suggest the majority of us are not so concerned with the carbon tax as such, rather, we are concerned that we Aussies are trying to tackle a global problem almost single handed.

Although there are those out there who believe there is no such thing as climate change, I can assure you I am not one of them.

We as a nation already suffer from a two speed economy and our high dollar is placing pressure on the other life blood of our nation, exports.

You see, because our living standards are so high and our population is so low, we rely on exports and if our exporters are faced with more costs (carbon tax) this may well be the straw that breaks the camels back.

Considering the majority of the nation is in recession, is this a risk we can afford to take?

@Shadow Minister: It has just been revealed that we will be paying double for NBN connections as we are presently paying for ASDL.

Seriously Shadow, what school taught you to add up?

It is not at all difficult to compare Internode's ADSL plans to their NBN plans. Here are Internode's ADSL plans: http://www.internode.on.net/residential/adsl_broadband/easy_naked/ So lets compare them to the NBN plans in the newspaper article:

ADSL: $ 30/mo, NBN: $ 30/mo - 30Gb
ADSL: $ 80/mo, NBN: $ 80/mo - 200Gb
ADSL: $100/mo, NBN: $100/mo - 300Gb
ADSL: $150/mo, NBN: $150/mo - 1Tb

I can understand you being deep blue to the core, but this propensity to enthusiastically swallow any drivel that is served up by your side of politics is mind blowing.