Queensland Senator and Leader of the Nationals in the Senate Barnaby Joyce. From his desk Senator Joyce writes on the impacts of the Rudd Governments Emissions Trading Scheme on the State of Queensland:
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With Queensland’s largest export being coal, the Government’s planned emissions trading scheme is a direct hit to the State’s bottom line. The ramifications of the emissions trading scheme will be felt by the people of Queensland more than any other State.
Not quite what we expected from a Queensland Prime Minister.
This Government tax grab in the form of a “Carbon Pollution Reduction” plan will be a price mechanism to reduce the competitiveness of the coal and aluminium industries, followed by the agricultural industry in the not too distant future.
In the interim, the mountainous State Labor debt will continue to grow. Queensland will be facing a debt of AU$65 billion, when you consider the addition of an emissions trading scheme. Such a burden carries major ramifications for the State, from overlooked infrastructure to the collapse of public private partnerships.
When all is said and done, we will be able to say with confidence that the Labor Party has been the author of a complete economic fiasco for our State.
Mr Rudd’s catchphrase of “I’m from Queensland, I’m here to help” has proved prophetic for the people of Queensland. His belligerent persistence to chase an emissions trading scheme will be factored into the decisions of the international participants in our economy and the domestic aspirations of everybody from the commercial hub in Brisbane to the industrial hub of Townsville, to the export hub of Gladstone and flowing through to the domestic tourism industry in Cairns.
The economic development inspired by mining will be something for the history books.
The people of Queensland will be happy to know that in his earnest self-righteous endorsement of Queensland’s path to perdition, Mr Rudd’s epistle was based on economic conditions that are so far from the reality of where we are now, his oversight is nothing short of overwhelming.
Being the largest exporter of seaborne coal in the world, Queensland has more than 30 billion tonnes of identified resources of black coal in situ. In addition, the Sunshine State is one of the largest beef producers by region in the world and is one of the fastest growing value adders of bauxite in aluminium production.
Responsible for such a notable contribution to the Nation, Queensland has a great deal to lose at the hands of this imprudent plan. We have a whole new theory of economic decoupling, only this time we will see a separation between Queensland and prosperity.
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Have Your say!
November 2, 2008 at 6:46 pm
G’day Agmates,
Nice 16 page pdf submission from Viv Forbes, at Carbon Sense Coalition.
As usual from Viv Forbes, very well put and very readable.
http://tinyurl.com/5h83n5
November 1, 2008 at 11:56 am
I’m not with any league of any type Steve just a concerned mother/farmers wife trying to work out whether the history of the west I have been taught is true – I suspect it is not – women have largely been second-class citizens for the majority of my life-time – men have written the history books. I do realize questioning history is a threat to a lot of western white men.
We are or we are about to lose our sovereignty if Rudd has his way – BUT IF YOUR GENERATION DOESN’T CARE then I may as well give up.
November 1, 2008 at 12:16 pm
If your not a ALOR supporter why do you quote their anti-semitic, Israel runs the world proaganda crap all of the time?
Come on just admit it. For god sake to try and Link an article to that dangerous ultra right winged goose Jeremy Lee.
And no I don’t give a dam if you give up or not. I’ve travelled and studied Von, and the stuff that you carry on with incites hatred and racism. A result of it was the Holocaust. But then you probably deny that ever happened.
Come on, come out with it – your a holocaust denier – aren’t you?
Also don’t come the poor second class citizen business because you are a female bit with us. Haven’t you noticed that Anna Bligh, Quentin Bryce, Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, Julia Gillard are all women.
November 1, 2008 at 12:49 pm
G’day Agmates,
You won’t be hearing from Von Curtis anymore on Agmates. She has been black listed.
I apologized to the readers who have been offended by her postings. In hind sight I should have blocked her ages ago. Its just that I’m a great believer in ‘free speech’.
However one of the things we won’t cop is racism and she had been warned – see link here.
Cheers –
November 1, 2008 at 10:41 am
Can Barnaby do something to put a stop this madness ?
November 1, 2008 at 11:31 am
G’day Von,
I’ve followed your link and now I’ve worked out where you are coming from.
Your an obvious supporter of the Australian League Of Rights who are said to have affiliations with Neo-Nazi Groups.
“The League, like many other far-Right organisations, strongly denies that the Shoah or Holocaust, during which millions of people, particularly European Jews, were killed, ever occurred.
It is strongly supportive of the polemicist and Holocaust denial advocate David Irving.[2] They believe that the world is run by a secret society of Jews.[3]
The League is distinctive for asserting that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a genuine Jewish document (the Encyclopædia Britannica for example describes the Protocols as a “fraudulent document that served as a pretext and rationale for anti-Semitism in the early 20th century”).”
As I’ve explained to you before – not on the Agmates forum’s.
And never to anything that Jeremy Lee has written. Your ALOR people are a really scary bunch and Agmates won’t have a bar of it.