Carbon tax shield for pensioners

Lenore Taylor Pensioner households will be on average $210 a year better off after receiving upfront assistance under the carbon tax deal that is now certain to pass Parliament, with another lower house...

Carbon tax will come with inbuilt annual rise

Lenore Taylor The carbon price will begin next July as a $23-a-tonne tax and will shift to an emissions trading scheme with a floating price in 2015.

Carbon tax to cost $10 a week per household

Lenore Taylor THE $23 carbon tax will cost the average household less than $10 a week, pushing up total electricity, gas and food bills by less than 1 per cent.

PM wins approval for price on carbon

Lenore Taylor JULIA GILLARD'S carbon deal appears set to pass the Parliament with support from the independents as unreleased Treasury modelling predicts strong growth in one of the industries that has vowed to...

Business quibbles on carbon details

Lenore Taylor Business is worried it could suffer a bigger-than-expected hit under the carbon tax deal as details trickle out about who will pay and the rules for an emissions trading scheme to take effect after...

Abbott lashes out as another report backs carbon tax

Lenore Taylor Australia's economists are wrong to believe a carbon price is the best way to reduce greenhouse has emissions, the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, said yesterday as another expert report concluded a...

PM pins hopes on climate tax switch

Lenore Taylor THE Gillard government's climate deal will include a guarantee the carbon tax will switch to an emissions trading scheme in 2015 in a bid to calm business concerns about an uncertain transition and...

Carbon tax relief will be extended

Lenore Taylor THE Gillard government is promising an additional carbon tax compensation payment to 110,000 Australians who have high electricity bills because of medical conditions.

Climate plan leaves voters cold

Lenore Taylor, NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT Support for climate action continues to erode and more Australians say they don't want to pay anything to help reduce greenhouse emissions as the Gillard government prepares to unveil a carbon tax...

Carbon tax model shows low toll on top 100

Lenore Taylor A $20 CARBON tax would have shaved just 2.3 per cent from the net profits of Australia's top 100 companies last year, a report has found.

Labor closes in on carbon tax deal

Lenore Taylor, Dan Harrison The Gillard government and the Greens were ''close'' to a climate policy deal last night as the new chief scientist, Ian Chubb, said he knew the ''science was in'' on human-induced climate change...

Labor, Greens are not across climate lines yet

Lenore Taylor The Greens are demanding billions of dollars of carbon tax revenue be dedicated to a renewable energy financing corporation to push technological change faster than can be achieved by the low carbon...

Carbon tax ad campaign infuriates crossbenchers

Lenore Taylor THE Greens and independents are furious that the Gillard government is to embark on a $12 million advertising campaign about the carbon tax when negotiations over the tax are stretched to breaking...

Windsor gives tick to carbon scheme

Lenore Taylor Key independent MP Tony Windsor says he is now ''completely convinced'' a carbon price is the cheapest way to reduce greenhouse emissions and would not mean Australia was moving ahead of the world.

Compensation bill to rise with carbon price

Lenore Taylor Jobs growth would be unaffected by a carbon price and household compensation will rise as the cost of carbon increases, the federal government pledged yesterday as it stepped up the campaign to sell...

Electric struggle for bigger payment

Lenore Taylor Power supply from Victoria's Yallourn Station would become less reliable and the plant would close sooner if the Gillard government offers electricity generators less than the $3.

Climate adviser blasts business lobby over carbon tax

Lenore Taylor Climate adviser, Ross Garnaut, has lashed Australian business for playing a ''spoiler'' role in the carbon price debate, saying it is putting short-sighted ''self-interest'' ahead of the national...

Analysis

Garnaut collides with political realities

Lenore Taylor, National Affairs Correspondent It seems the Gillard government, like the Rudd government, is not likely to accept all of Professor Ross Garnaut's advice.

Carbon Cate is just fodder for Coalition campaign

Lenore Taylor Coalition sources were well pleased yesterday with their ''Carbon Cate'' attack on the new $1 million pro-carbon tax advertising campaign.