Page 2209 - Week 07 - Thursday, 7 August 2014
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There is no doubt this boost to retailer’s bottom lines and the pockets of consumers will assist the sector to overcome pressures from excessive costs and be a boost to current low consumer confidence.
This is from Master Grocers Australia:
The removal of what amounted to an onerous toll will give greater opportunities for independent retailers to invest in their businesses and employ more staff.
Won’t that be welcome? I quote:
Carbon tax flow-on costs hit Australian farmers every time they pay for essential electricity, fertiliser, chemical and fuel supplies. Rather than promoting Australian farm competitiveness, the tax dampened the sector’s efforts to grow and increase productivity.
That is from the National Farmers Federation. But we know that this mob like to tax the most productive elements of society.
Most Canberrans want, where they can, to create a better world, and most found it just unacceptable to be paying for an ideological crusade, driven in many ways by the Greens, and one of the highest carbon pricing mechanisms in the world. We hear a lot about, “Oh, there’s carbon pricing everywhere. Everywhere there’s carbon pricing.”
Let me tell you a little bit about carbon pricing across the world. The Gillard-Rudd punitive tax covered 60 per cent of total emissions across Australia, and it was over $24 a tonne. Let us have a look at some comparisons. The European Union ETS covered 45 per cent of emissions and it was $7 a tonne. The regional greenhouse gas initiative, which covers nine states of the US, was about $3 a tonne and was only on the electricity sector. This was an economy-wide tax, it failed to reduce emissions in a meaningful way, it sent our industry offshore and hurt the pocket of every Canberran.
Mr Barr: You’re not an ETS supporter now, Jeremy?
MR HANSON: An ETS supporter? Remember that it was you lot that wanted the carbon tax. We do not want the carbon tax.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, resume your seat, please. Stop the clock. Members, there are far too many interjections. The member is entitled to be heard without interruption. Mr Hanson.
MR HANSON: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. It is welcome to note that it is not only Mr Barr, Mr Corbell and those on that side of this chamber that resent the fact that Canberrans are going to have an extra $550 to spend on their families this year and every year after. I notice that local member Gai Brodtmann said that Labor was “helping Australian taxpayers”. It was helping them to “manage the very small price increases that will occur” as they put a price on carbon. It seems that the local member, Ms Brodtmann, thinks that this $550 a family is just a small contribution. I look forward to her telling people how small that amount of tax is when she is meeting them at local supermarkets.
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