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Carbon tax calculator exposes hit to family and business budgets
The Institute of Public Affairs, Australia's leading free market think tank, today distributed thousands of postcards to small businesses across the country highlighting a new research tool which allows Australians to calculate the impact to their...
Carbon tax will cripple Australian coal industry: new study
The federal government's carbon tax will cripple Australia's coal industry forcing jobs offshore and closing many existing coal mines according to free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. A new report released Monday by ACIL-Tasman...
New report warns of resource bubble
A new report from Standard and Poor's global rating service has warned that current conditions in the commodity markets may represent an unsustainable bubble which is open to a sudden correction. Responding to the report Hugh Tobin, Director of...
Greens call to ban new coal mines would be catastrophic
Free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, today warned that the Greens call to ban new coal mines would be catastrophic for Northern Australia and would sound the death knell for any serious proposal to economically develop the...
IPA applauds Gillard honesty: carbon tax will send electricity prices soaring, honesty now needed on price of renewables
'The Institute of Public Affairs congratulates Julia Gillard's honesty today when she admitted that a carbon tax would send electricity prices soaring', said Director of Climate Change Policy, Tim Wilson. In her press conference today announcing...