Monday, October 24, 2011

Carbon Tax To Go To Vote

It was spruiked as a new industry group making an eleventh-hour plea to the Gillard government to defer the carbon tax, but Manufacturing Australia has been working as a voice of political attack for big manufacturers for at least six months.

Now chaired by Dick Warburton, businessman and more recently climate adviser to the Coalition leader, Tony Abbott, the group says it will lobby on several issues affecting manufacturing even after the expected passage of the carbon tax bills through the House of Representatives tomorrow and the Senate by the end of the year.

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