On Sunday, July 10, 2011 the Gillard Government announced publicly that the 500 largest polluters in Australia would be taxed at $23/tonne of carbon emission, effective from July 1, 2012.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax#Austral...

Unfortunately, heavy opposition from fickle conservatives, makes reform hard work!

Last February, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a new carbon tax, effective in 2012, the details of which she finally released last Sunday, July 10. If she succeeds in rolling her plan out, Australia will be the first country in the world with an economy-wide tax on carbon emissions. But Australia's economy relies heavily on carbon-intensive agriculture and mining exports and opposition to Gillard's plan has been intense. Now the Prime Minister and her Labor party are struggling to hold onto power as the fight over carbon taxing threatens not just to derail Gillard's plan but to topple Australia's government.

www.theatlantic.com/international/archiv...

The rhetoric is lowbrow!

Now let us try for a moment to realise the nature of that abode of the damned, Gillard's carbon-taxed Australia. That Australia will be a dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls. In earthly prisons the poor captive has at least some liberty of movement, were it only within the four walls of his cell. Not so in Gillard's carbon-taxed Australia. There, by reason of the great number of the damned, the prisoners will be heaped together in their awful prison, the walls of which will be four thousand miles thick and where the damned will be so utterly bound and helpless that they'll not even be able to remove from the eye a worm that gnaws it. All the filth, offal and scum of the world shall run there as to a vast reeking sewer. Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. O, how terrible will be the lot of these wretched beings, Australians, under a carbon tax! The blood will seethe and boil in their veins, their brains will boil in their skulls, their bowels will be red-hot mass of burning pulp.

www.canberratimes.com.au/news/opinion/ed...

The draft legislation has been published.

The Clean Energy Legislative Package includes four main bills:

• The Clean Energy Bill 2011 (which sets up the carbon price mechanism);
• The Clean Energy Regulator Bill 2011 (which establishes a regulatory body to administer the mechanism);
• The Climate Change Authority Bill 2011 (which establishes a new Authority to advise the government on the future design of the carbon price mechanism) and
• The Clean Energy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011.

www.climatechange.gov.au/media/whats-new...

This video shows a tiny dribble of the protest that will break loose here tomorrow!
youtu.be/9ehTcKZUQQ8