21st Jun 2012, 6:02 PM – Senate Motions — Carbon Pricing - Condemn Government

The majority voted against a motion that a previous motion introduced by Senator Mathias Cormann may be put.

This means that there will be no vote on Senator Cormann's motion, which was:

That the Senate condemns the Labor Government for imposing the world's biggest carbon tax(By "carbon tax", Senator Cormann is referring to the carbon pricing mechanism, which will begin on 1 July 2012.) on the Australian economy at the worst possible time, when the Prime Minister (Ms Gillard) promised before the 2010 election that there would be no carbon tax under a government she leads and when it will:

(a) push up the cost of living;

(b) push up the cost of doing business;

(c) make Australia less competitive internationally;

(d) cost jobs;

(e) result in lower real wages and cause a cumulative reduction in Australia's gross domestic product in the order of $1 trillion between now and 2050, according to the Government's own Treasury modelling; and

(f) shift economic activity and emissions overseas, therefore doing nothing to help reduce global emissions.

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