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Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... of the drop was accounted for by the 5.1% drop in electricity prices - which is transitory due to the removal of the carbon tax - but automotive fuel prices did fall by 2.5% over the quarter. This is good... because what's not spent on energy and petrol ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... strong with BHP's numbers on Tuesday expected to be quite strong." Investors in resource stocks were also cheered by the carbon tax being abolished by the Senate. The big miners all added more than 1.5 percentage points with Fortescue lifting 15 cents ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... opportunities, we are cutting company tax by 1.5 percentage points for around 800,000 businesses. We are abolishing the carbon tax and we are abolishing the mining tax. We are removing $1 billion a year in red tape because regulation means more staff ...

Coalition to save $1.6bn via SG delay

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... "automatic adjustments to government spending and revenue". Discontinuing business compensation measures from abolishing the carbon tax will save $5.1 billion, while there are a number of savings from scrapping the minerals resource rent tax (MRRT). ...

Limbo of uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... course, there is the small issue of politics and policy changes - the latest of which is the KRudd's plan to scrap the carbon tax and move into ETS sooner and plugging the revenue hole this will create in the budget by raising taxes elsewhere or limiting ...

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... uncertainties have emerged as a result of this coup. Would KRudd, for instance, ditch Julia's unpopular policies such as the carbon tax and the mining tax? And then, there's the timing of the next election...and Krudd's leadership character. Can a leopard ...

Coalition will delay SG rise, abolish LICS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... these measures alone will produce nearly $5 billion a year in savings which "is more than enough for tax cuts without a carbon tax." He added that the pension increases announced by the government as part of the carbon tax package will, however, be maintained ...

Global cooling on carbon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... Did I say you, I mean Julia and Wayne. For just as we Australians all, seemed to have warmed to Julia's flip on the carbon tax, the international price has collapsed. Australian energy guzzlers are currently paying a fixed price of A$23 per tonne and ...

Ex-Macq banker to head up Govt clean energy fund

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... 2011 the Gillard Government unveiled the CEFC as part of its Clean Energy Future Plan, alongside its controversial Carbon Tax. From 1 July next year the CEFC will start putting its own, as well as private sector cash, into renewable energy, low-emission ...

Federal election to compound market uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... political battle as the federal government's energy white paper seeks to shift blame for price rises away from the carbon tax and onto the states. "Political risk has a habit of catching investors by surprise", he said. "However, a number of trends can ...