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Today the nation’s major business groups called on Labor to get out of the way and scrap the Carbon Tax.
In an unprecedented joint statement, the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Australian Industry Group and the Minerals Council said:
“Australia’s Carbon Tax is one of the highest in the world. It is making our key industries less competitive every day it stays in place.
“Most businesses have been unable to pass their Carbon Tax-related costs on to customers. For small business especially, this has been a major burden that has reduced profitability, suppressed employment and added toalready difficult conditions.
“Acting now to repeal the Carbon Tax would boost business confidence and should be part of a broader national push to reduce high energy costs.
“Delaying repeal until the new Senate sits would not achieve anything for the environment. It would simply expose business to increasing and damaging uncertainty over the electricity prices they will be obliged to pay from 1 July 2014.
“We urge the Senate to repeal the Carbon Tax as soon as possible."
This joint statement follows the comments of Virgin CEO, John Borghetti who said “The best assistance the Government and the Opposition can provide is the removal of the Carbon Tax which has cost this industry hundreds of millions of dollars”.
Bill Shorten should listen to the businesses that create jobs and vote with the Coalition to scrap this job destroying tax.
The Carbon Tax is a $9 billion hit on the economy and on families. It is also, as the business leaders pointed out, a hit on jobs.
It’s time for it to go!
Regards
Joe Hockey
Treasurer
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March 5, 2014 / 3 AdarII 5774
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Events
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- 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
- 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
- 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, bringsMaine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
- 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersmanDavy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
- 1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
- 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
- 1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
- 1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
- 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
- 1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
- 1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
- 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
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- 1475 – Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1564)
- 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and playwright (d. 1655)
- 1785 – Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (d. 1857)
- 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (d. 1861)
- 1906 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
- 1923 – Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show host, and announcer (d. 2009)
- 1923 – Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (Montgomery Brothers) (d. 1968)
- 1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano
- 1944 – Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)
- 1946 – David Gilmour, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pink Floyd, Joker's Wild, and Deep End)
- 1947 – Kiki Dee, English singer
- 1947 – John Stossel, American journalist and author
- 1972 – Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player, actor, and rapper
- 2001 – Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress
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- 1836 – Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo:
- James Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1807)
- James Bowie, American colonel (b. 1796)
- Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (b. 1786)
- William B. Travis, American lieutenant and lawyer (b. 1809)
- 1842 – Constanze Mozart, German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1763)
- 1881 – Horatia Nelson, English daughter of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (b. 1801)
- 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American author (b. 1832)
- 1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist (b. 1841)
- 1967 – John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (b. 1865)
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