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If itâs technology not taxes, whereâs the funding from?
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April 26, 2021 â 12.05am
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For how long is Australia going to buy the Prime Ministerâs increasingly tired old saw, âtechnology not taxesâ (âIndustry leaves PM behind on emissionsâ, April 24-25)?With Scott Morrison offering the presidential summit to spend $539 million on new âcleanâ energy projects, including $263 million for the thoroughly dodgy carbon capture and storage dream, I have to ask: whoâs paying?
And the answer is me, via my taxes. So taxes are certainly involved. Wasnât this a government that promised to get the budget back in the black? Wouldnât it be far more effective to tax the polluters and boost the budget rather than tax us to pay off the polluters?
For all victims, Parliament assault must be resolved
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February 17, 2021 12.05am
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A young woman, allegedly assaulted in March 2019, brushed aside in order to keep her job (“Ex-staffer says rape claim was dismissed”, February 16). If our government can’t speedily handle this claim it’s no wonder so many victims are reluctant to come forward.
Denis Suttling, Newport Beach
The issue is not so much that the Liberal Party has a “woman problem” but that the Coalition government has an issue with morality – not just sexual morality.
Emission impossible unless political climate changes
January 29, 2021 â 12.05am
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Most thinking people could not fail to be alarmed by John Hewsonâs article about Australiaâs emissions targetsâ catastrophe. Scott Morrison is captive to both his backbench and the fossil fuel lobby he will continue to do nothing to address the issue (âEmissions verdict is catastrophicâ, January 28). To make matters worse, although the government is very vulnerable on its lack of a climate change policy, Anthony Albanese is ineffective in highlighting this failing and its consequences. Perhaps the only thing that will force our recalcitrant politicians to act is the likelihood of a carbon border tax being introduced by the EU and the inevitability that the USA will follow suit.
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