
RESISTANCE to a carbon price is growing, with 45 export companies and industry groups writing to Julia Gillard yesterday to demand they not be disadvantaged and the welfare sector expressing concern about compensation arrangements for the needy.
Despite the assurances of generous compensation for pensioners, the Australian Council of Social Service will today argue that a percentage increase in pensions will disadvantage the jobless because their allowances are much less then the age pension.
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