Australia Carbon Tax Fine 1 Million Dollars If You Complain

Fitness club first to get carbon tax fine

August 1, 2012

Fitness club first to get carbon tax fine
Paul Osborne
TheAustralian
A FITNESS club has become the first Australian business to pay a fine for making a false claim about the carbon tax.

GFC Berwick, trading as Genesis Fitness Club, paid $6600 to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) as penalty for sending a letter to its members in April promoting a “rate freeze” offer.

The fitness club said that by taking up the offer, members could avoid a fee increase of nine to 15 per cent because of the carbon price.

More than 200 members took up the offer and extended their contracts.

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Australians Being Brain Washed Over Climate Change

July 30, 2012

Since Australia enacted it’s carbon trade the main stream news is quick to brain wash Australians. Australians wake up on a Monday morning to read how great cap and trade is and it’s not hurting anyone. Prices haven’t gone up all is well. In 6 or so years Australia wont have the minerals they have so easily as today. The cost for mining the minerals sent to China will increase in cost along with the carbon tax and taxes overall. After all Australia has an Australia Carbon Tax For Dead People. Australians should be reminded that colleges love to push man made carbon because that gives the professors and the schools grants and tons of money. Remember, Penn State University was caught sending fake computer climate data to universities in England. It’s a scam alright. For better information on climate change try global warming heartland

AUSTRALIA: MORE VIOLENT CRIME DESPITE GUN BAN

July 21, 2012

AUSTRALIA: MORE VIOLENT CRIME DESPITE GUN BAN
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It is a common fantasy that gun bans make society safer. In 2002 — five years after enacting its gun ban — the Australian Bureau of Criminology acknowledged there is no correlation between gun control and the use of firearms in violent crime. In fact, the percent of murders committed with a firearm was the highest it had ever been in 2006 (16.3 percent), says the D.C. Examiner.

Even Australia’s Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research acknowledges that the gun ban had no significant impact on the amount of gun-involved crime:

In 2006, assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
Sexual assault — Australia’s equivalent term for rape — increased 29.9 percent.
Overall, Australia’s violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.

Moreover, Australia and the United States — where no gun-ban exists — both experienced similar decreases in murder rates:

Between 1995 and 2007, Australia saw a 31.9 percent decrease; without a gun ban, America’s rate dropped 31.7 percent.
During the same time period, all other violent crime indices increased in Australia: assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
Sexual assault — Australia’s equivalent term for rape — increased 29.9 percent.
Overall, Australia’s violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.
At the same time, U.S. violent crime decreased 31.8 percent: rape dropped 19.2 percent; robbery decreased 33.2 percent; aggravated assault dropped 32.2 percent.
Australian women are now raped over three times as often as American women.

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Australia Carbon Tax For Dead People

July 9, 2012

A Melbourne family who claim they were slugged an extra $55 “carbon tax charge” when burying a relative were told “even the dead don’t escape the carbon tax”.
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Erica Maliki and her family were burying her father-in-law at Springvale Cemetery when she was told the price per burial plot had increased because of the carbon tax.

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Her father-in-law died on June 30, the day before the carbon tax was introduced, and was buried early last week.

“I thought to myself, ‘What carbon could possibly be used by putting a man in a grave?’” Ms Maliki said

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Australia Carbon Tax Fine 1 Million Dollars If You Complain

July 2, 2012

Australia Carbon Tax Fine 1 Million Dollars If You Complain. Australia’s government is actually threatening to fine businesses that blame the carbon tax for price increases 1 million dollars and, up. If you own a business and a customer walks in asking why the price of a product has gone up and, the business say’s because of the carbon tax they will be fined. The carbon tax in Australia will integrate with other countries carbon tax scheme until it goes global. Welcome to the new world order.

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Australia Kicks Off Carbon Tax

July 2, 2012

Australia Kicks Off Carbon Tax
By James Grubel and Stian Reklev
Reuters.com

July 1 (Reuters) – Australia on Sunday joins a growing number of nations to impose a price on carbon emissions across its $1.4 trillion economy in a bitterly contested reform that offers trading opportunities for banks and polluters but may cost the prime minister her job.

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Australia’s biggest polluters, from coal-fired power stations to smelters, will initially pay A$23 ($23) per tonne of carbon dioxide emitted, more than twice the cost of carbon pollution in the European Union, currently trading around 8.15 euros ($10) a tonne.

The economic pain will be dulled by billions of dollars in sweeteners for businesses and voters to minimise the impact on costs, with the consumer price index forecast to rise by an extra 0.7 percentage point in the 2012-13 fiscal year.

The scheme allows emissions trading from 2015, when polluters and investors will be able to buy overseas carbon offsets, or ultimately trade with schemes in Europe, New Zealand and possibly those planned in South Korea and China.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s minority government says the plan is needed to fight climate change and curb greenhouse gas pollution. Australia has amongst the world’s highest per capita CO2 emissions due to its reliance on coal-fired power stations.

Yet even as it starts, the scheme’s future is in doubt. The conservative opposition has vowed to repeal it if they win power in elections due by late next year and have whipped up a scare campaign saying the tax will cost jobs and hurt the economy.

Gillard, her poll ratings near record lows and her Labor party heading for a heavy election defeat, hopes that the campaign will quickly run out of steam once the scheme starts.

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