National Carbon Price: how does Tony Abbott explain this?

 

If Australian businesses are all behind Tony Abbott’s position that a national carbon price will wreck the economy, how does he explain this advertisement by Businesses for a Clean Economy?

Almost 300 organisations have galvanised under the banner of Businesses for a Clean Economy to voice their support for putting a price on carbon. The 299 large, medium and small sized businesses and associations represent a wide variety of sectors from across the Australian economy and include AGL, ARUP, Fujitsu, GE, Grocon, HESTA, IKEA, Infigen, Pacific Hydro, The Body Shop Australia, Unilever, Vestas, and Westpac.

While over at the Australia Institute it was being pointed out that the the three-year set carbon price was one of the smaller 'taxes' being collected by government.

How low can one pollie go?

Has that £10 Pom Tony Abbott descended so far into the abyss that he's becomes the ultimate heartless b@stard:

“One well-placed Liberal source told The Australian that Abbott would rather see Labor continue to bleed politically with ongoing boat arrivals. If that means deaths at sea continue, he said, so be it.”

You can take the lad out of England but you can’t take the bluddy cruel perversity out of a politician weaned on British-style right wing politics.

Clarence Valley calls on local MP, Chris Gulaptis, to stand up for Grafton

• The O'Farrell Government is going to cut 103 jobs, including 11 nursing positions from Grafton Gaol.
• The Clarence Valley Community is calling for local MP, Chris Gulaptis, to stop the cuts or stand aside and let someone else be a true representative of the community.
• A Community rally will be held in Grafton on Thursday at 12.15pm at Memorial Park, near the rowing sheds.

When Chris Gulaptis was elected he said the gaol was safe, and he promised that he’d never let us down.

Northern Star reporter told, "Report the news, don't make the news"

A Northern Star reader, David Robinson of Alstonville, has provided the Star's journo Rodney Stevens with some cautionary advice.

In an sms to the Star, Robinson wrote: Re murder suspect had been Australian soldier: Seriously Rodney, calling the accused's mobile phone? What did you leave on the voicemail? Offer of an exclusive interview? Let's leave this to the police. We don't want another News of the World paper.

Previously, Stevens wrote, "The Northern Star obtained Stenberg's mobile phone number yesterday but the call went to voicemail." Read it in the Star here.

James Ashby apparently desires that the Commonwealth and Slipper defend all allegations before he supplies evidence of these same allegations to the Federal Court

 

In the matter of Ashby v Commonwealth of Australia:

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Hogan's off to a hellava start

 

This was Kevin Hogan (the Nats candidate for Page at the next federal election) in The Daily Examiner on 2nd July 2012:
“We are seeing business really struggling in our communities at present causing job insecurity. I believe there is disappointment on many fronts with this current Labor Government.
Yup, that’s the second-time round campaigner we have all come to know.
Blame the Gillard Government for job insecurity, when the day before his state compatriot Nats MP Chris Gulaptis had been busy trying to excuse the NSW Coalition Government's axing of 100 jobs in Page.

*Pic from The Northern Star