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National

Tax cut to compensate for higher living costs

Workers earning up to $80,000 a year will get a tax cut to compensate them for higher living costs caused by the Gillard Government’s $23 a tonne carbon tax.
July 10, 2011, 10:01 am
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Critics will rough up gentle start

Julia Gillard has secured a politically marketable scheme to price carbon that is aimed at inoculating her embattled Government from a householder backlash while achieving credible tax reform.
July 11, 2011, 2:37 am
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Handout bonuses aimed at battlers

Households will be on average just 20¢ a week better off under Julia Gillard's carbon tax compensation package but her "Labor values" have skewed assistance heavily towards low and middle-income earners.
July 11, 2011, 2:30 am
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Income boost is give and take

Tens of thousands of Australians are expected to enter the workforce or boost their hours as part of the overhaul of the income tax system.
July 11, 2011, 2:27 am
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Industry fears jobs will be lost

The $23 a tonne carbon price will barely cause a ripple through the economy, the Government claims, but industry fears it will cost jobs and send some businesses to the wall.
July 11, 2011, 2:20 am
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Tax benefits mess up real mission

The Gillard Government has managed to marry tax reform to climate change.
July 11, 2011, 2:18 am
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An historic day: Greens

The $23 per tonne price on carbon pollution is an “historic” move that will lead to a surge in renewable energy, the Australian Greens say.
July 10, 2011, 1:30 pm
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Comment: Soft start in carbon plan

Julia Gillard has gone for a soft start in her carbon plan that is both politically marketable and, on first glance at least, environmentally sound.
July 10, 2011, 10:05 am
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Snow falls at Bondi Beach

Iconic Bondi Beach is not normally known as a winter wonderland.
July 9, 2011, 1:05 pm

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Pensioners to be $200 better off under tax

The average pensioner will be more than $200 better off even after the price impact of the carbon tax under a multi-billion-dollar compensation package to be unveiled by Julia Gillard tomorrow.
July 9, 2011, 2:30 am

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Carbon the key to PM and ALP's bright or bleak future

Tomorrow's announcement of the carbon tax will either begin Julia Gillard's political rejuvenation or hasten her end.
July 9, 2011, 2:28 am
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Wilkie to back climate package

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been assured on the eve of launching her climate package that laws putting a price on carbon will pass parliament.
July 8, 2011, 2:09 pm

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X-ray of hope for underage smugglers

The Indonesian crew of people smuggling boats who claim they are under 18 will be able to demand dental X-rays in a bid to prove their age and stay out of Australian prisons.
July 8, 2011, 6:09 am
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Fur flies over carbon tax catcall

Julia Gillard has forced Labor's chief parliamentary disciplinarian to apologise personally to Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop for making a catcall, with the Prime Minister demanding both sides avoid sexist remarks.
July 8, 2011, 5:47 am

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Carbon tax hits houses

Homebuyers will pay more than $5000 extra for an average new home under the Federal Government's proposed carbon tax, the housing industry warns.
July 8, 2011, 2:50 am

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Boycott threat to food companies

As Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott began rehearsing their lines of attack on the carbon war, food companies were being threatened by a boycott from the activist group GetUp unless they disavowed an anti-carbon tax campaign being planned by the industry umbrella group.
July 8, 2011, 2:48 am
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WA tops world in new deadly skin cancer

Scientists are warning of a little-known skin cancer that is deadlier than melanoma and more common in WA than anywhere in the world.
July 8, 2011, 2:40 am
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Blow to farmers as Jakarta cools on quick trade deal

Farmers' hopes of a fast resumption of the cattle trade were dealt a critical blow last night when Jakarta said it may not allow any new imports for three months.
July 8, 2011, 2:30 am

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Cattle export a privilege, not a right: cattle boss

Cattle industry heavyweight Paul Holmes a Court says pastoralists have learned that exporting live beasts is a privilege, not a right, and animal welfare guarantees are needed for the trade.
July 7, 2011, 10:07 am

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Jobless rate steady in June

The nation's unemployment rate has remained steady at 4.9 per cent after 23,000 people got work through June, beating economists' expectations.
July 7, 2011, 9:40 am

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