TRANSCRIPT OF THE HON. TONY ABBOTT MHR

JOINT DOORSTOP INTERVIEW WITH SENATOR STEPHEN PARRY, SENATOR FOR TASMANIA AND DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND MR. ANDREW NIKOLIC, LIBERAL CANDIDATE FOR BASS, LAUNCESTON

 

Subjects: Julia Gillard’s carbon tax; government regulation; Federal Budget; pulp mill; forestry industry. 

 

EO&E................................................................................................................................................

New South Wales families and businesses will pay an average 16 per cent increase in their electricity bills, with half being attributed to the Carbon Tax.

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has released its draft determination on the power price rises to apply from 1 July which, for the first time, will include the Carbon Tax.

These increases are a major blow to families and businesses across New South Wales, with the Carbon Tax a...

Labor’s rush job to pass harmonised occupational health and safety laws last year will do significant damage according to a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report released today.

The report shows that in Victoria alone, there will be a cost burden to business of $3.44 billion with 78% of transition costs and 74% of ongoing costs hitting small business. 

“This report shows once and for all that small business will bear the burden of these rushed laws.” S...

Ex union supremo, Greg Combet, is far more interested in telling industry to “grow up” and conform to Labor’s sectional trade union interests than doing the hard yards, properly engaging with industry and developing a real long term vision.

 

Mr Combet’s cheap substitute for policy substance is a conjuring act where a bunch of his union mates front television cameras spruiking rebadged ideas, like industry participation plans already announced last October, as if th...