CO2 tax to hit H20 prices

Senator Barnaby Joyce

Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Water

Leader of The Nationals in the Senate

LNP Senator for Queensland

9 December 2011

CO2 tax to hit H20 prices

It's the end of the week. I know it's the end of the week because we just borrowed another $2.4 billion and Friday afternoon usually brings the news that we have borrowed another $2 billion.

Our gross debt is now over $223 billion, which means there is only $26 billion before we max out the nation's credit card, which shouldn't take too long at the rate we are borrowing.

We have borrowed $14 billion over the past two months, almost $200 million per day.

We have also found out today that a report from the New South Wales government's independent regulatory agency, IPART, has found that the carbon tax will cause a substantial increase in water prices in New South Wales.

This is a fascinating tax we have put on the Australian people. It doesn't matter whether you are washing your clothes or washing your car, it is going to cost you more money, and the climate will stay exactly the same regardless.

The IPART report shows that the Sydney Desalination Plant's water prices will increase by 2 per cent next year and by almost 6 per cent over the next 5 years due to the carbon tax.
Water prices have already increased by 58 per cent since the Rudd-Gillard government came to power.

They don't call desalination 'bottled electricity' for nothing. The carbon tax will increase the cost of everything that has to plug into the wall and desalinated water will be no different.

As the hopes for international action on climate change, collapse around the beaches of Durban, Australian families can rightly ask why the government is making their living costs higher than they need to be in a futile attempt to change the climate.

If the government were not so focused on Bob Brown they might actually turn their attention to the real issues that face Australian families.

Australia: Battle Lines are being further defined over the Carbon Tax

Whereas the past few years have seen carbon tax supporters making leering remarks to the anti-carbon tax advocates in a manner that tries to make the latter look like uneducated loonies, the lines are now clarifying.

Labor, as we know, is steadfastly pro-green (hung by a political noose Julia?), but many liberals have seemed to be in opposition to this. Barnaby Joyce is, I hope, a man of conviction regarding the lack of science behind the carbon-traders; only time will tell however if Barnaby holds true to his rhetoric. Some others are however starting to show their colours; Tony Abbott for one.

Malcolm Turnbull certainly showed his leaning at the Inaugural Virginia Chadwick Memorial Foundation Lecture in Sydney on July 21st 2011. He did his level best to discredit Lyndon LaRouche, and talks down his references and credentials. Can we believe Mr Turnbull in a speech made to a captive audience when Lyndon LaRouche, the only man who accurately forecast the GFC, has no right of reply? I think not!

Tony Abbott is a monarchist, as was I until I understood the fuller history of the British Empire and the lengths Prince Phillip (and Prince Charles) have gone to to promote their green fascist agenda to enslave the 'serfs' of the world.

Prince Philip and former Nazi SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands co‑founded the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 1961 to reduce human population; the WWF has raised enormous sums of money from multinational corporations like BP‚ Shell‚ Rio Tinto‚ and Unilever to lock up great tracts of land, first in Africa, and then all over the world‚ so that the land could not be used by locals for the kind of economic development they required to raise their living standards.

Prince Philip fantasised aloud about population‑reduction in August 1988‚ telling Deutsche Presse‑Agentur‚ “In the event that I am reincarnated‚ I would like to return as a deadly virus‚ in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”

Tony Abbott told ABC radio on 16^th December that his idea that there was a natural fit between the conservation movement and “conservative” politics was inspired by “no less a person than Prince Philip” being the “inaugural president or patron at one of the big international environmental organisations [sic].”

Tony Abbott's has recently embraced greenie policies more fully, including his plan to complete the Howard government‑initiated shut‑down of the Murray‑Darling Basin‚ and to draft 15‚000 Australians into a sub‑minimum wage “green” army. 

God help Australia. We really need to know what our politicians stand for, not just what they say in-situ, but what they really think and will act on!

Steve B

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Get ready for unemployment says Labor man

It's going to happen, and soon. And it will be deeper and longer if the carbon tax gets in. REgardless of what you think of Liberal, Labor, Greens etc., this one issue is a back-breaker for Australia. If we let this in, we are dead in the water. Please, please, consider working against and voting against the Green-Labor coalition as a life priority. It will be too late once it's in, and you see devastation around you, to repeal it.

We need government to be accountable to the people. If Green-Labor is not prepared to be accountable, they should be all accounts give way to an elected body that will!

Steve B

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From: Swan, Jenny (Sen B. Joyce)

To: Swan, Jenny (Sen B. Joyce)

Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 11:36 AM

Subject: Media Release- Labor's man in waiting tells workers to embrace the challenge of unemployment

Senator Barnaby Joyce

Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Water

Leader of The Nationals in the Senate

LNP Senator for Queensland

29 July 2011

Labor's man in waiting tells workers to embrace the challenge of unemployment

Well, Julia Gillard is certainly not wearing out her stilettos but, by gosh, Simon Crean seems to have more zest at the moment than a juicy new season lemon.

While the Prime Minister has kept close to Canberra and Melbourne, Simon has been to Geelong, Rockhampton and Queanbeyan.

Pray tell, what is he up to? What has inspired this youthful exuberance?

Mind you it doesn't matter who is riding this donkey, it's not going to win the Cup.

If it wasn't so sad it would be hilarious but Simon Crean's message to the regions is that they should "embrace the challenge" of meeting the house payments with social security.

Simon Crean told Rockhampton radio the other day:

“... we have important packages of support there for industries and regions prepared to embrace the challenge.” ( http://www.minister.regional.gov.au/sc/pressconf/2011/SCT048_2011.aspxhttp://www.minister.regional.gov.au/sc/pressconf/2011/SCT048_2011.aspx )

All of this embracing is starting to make me feel awkward.

First of all, compensation requires first something to go wrong and the thing that is going to go wrong is your electricity bill or your job.

No one gets paid compensation without first being inflicted by an injury.

Regional Australia is about to have to deal with a new independent, unelected government body, the Climate Change Authority, like the Reserve Bank. The Reserve Bank might put up interest rates; the Climate Change Authority will definitely put up your taxes.

They can do this without any more legislation being passed after the introduction of the carbon tax.

Not only do we have taxation without representation, we are going to the brave new world of taxation without legislation.

This will be enforced by a new battalion of green police, the Climate Change Regulator. Rather than the Keystone Cops we will have Australia's own Tombstone Regulators, they will give new meaning to that famous line from the western movie ... Regulators, mount up!

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Senator Barnaby Joyce: Another Green-Labor-Independent unfolding disaster

The great trilogy of policy disasters of the Labor party are:

- the live cattle trade, getting a 0 out of 10 for diplomacy and a 0 out of 10 for economics

- the carbon tax, getting a 0 out of 10 for public relations, and a 0 out of 10 for democracy and 2 out of 10 for cost of living.

- and the one that is actually the closest at home for me, the Murray Darling Basin, which gets 0 out of 10 for economics, a 0 out of 10 for regional development, a 2 out of 10 for consultation and a 2 out of 10 for our future food security.

The latest revelations on the fiasco that is the Labor party's Murray-Darling Basin policy is the release today of the Environment and Behaviour Consultants report on the socioeconomic impacts of the Basin.

The report shows that the towns that will be hit the hardest are small and heavily reliant on food production, and the resulting multiplier effects this production provides.

These are the small towns that Sarah Hanson-Young wants to shut down, when she calls for 7600 GL to be taken away from water use in the Basin. If it was up to Sarah Hanson-Young the only place that Banjo Paterson could have written about would have been Nimbin.

The Green-Labor-Independent alliance seems intent on destroying the fabric that the vast majority of Australians take as their heritage. Yes we live on the coast but our soul is our centre. We are logically and sentimentally very attached to the work of the people who feed us, Clothe us and provide the vast majority of our export income to sustain our nation.

This report on the Murray-Darling Basin should clearly have numerous columns in our nation's newspapers tomorrow. It's just that another Green-Labor-Independent fiasco is shading it out.

Craig Knowles has said that it was all terrible in the past but now things have changed. But what actually has changed? The current Labor government approach risks making the same mistakes again.

The MDBA is not increasing its consultation, rather it’s shutting it down. The Victorian Minister last week revealed that the MDBA is planning to only hold meetings with invited 'industry leaders' after the draft plan is released.

The Government refuses to amend the legislation; in fact they refuse to even consider amending the legislation, which led us to this problem in the first place. This is despite the findings of a recent Senate inquiry into the Water Act.

The government is continuing with the purchase of non-strategic water buybacks. This is despite a recent House of Representatives inquiry, which included Labor members, backing the Coalition's election policy of making water purchases more strategic.

Labor's approach to the Murray-Darling is a peacock policy, looks marvellous, sounds ordinary but its capacity to fly is highly questionable.

source: Senator Barnaby Joyce
Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Water
Leader of The Nationals in the Senate
LNP Senator for Queensland


14th July 2011
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