[More people who'll just have to make a living selling each other wind turbines]: Carbon tax 'will cost 4000 coal jobs' | The Australian

EXPLOSIVE economic modelling warns that the carbon tax could force eight black coalmines to close, costing nearly 3000 jobs in regional NSW and more than 1100 jobs in Queensland in its first three years.

Quadrant Online - Bob rules, OK?

Anyone who believes that the current carbon dioxide tax, the future ETS, the madness of solar panel rebates and feed- tariffs, the pink batt caper, the wind-farm nonsense and the mining tax isn’t being driven by Green policy and threats to withdraw support from the minority government, just isn’t following the plot. Since September the government of this country isn’t taking place in parliament, but is being driven from a Green Star Chamber. Things are decided by Bob, but Julia cops the flack.

One of the most extraordinary aspects about the political theatre involving the carbon dioxide tax is the way the Greens have skirted around the subject of electricity prices hitting the less well-off. All you get is a blithe reference to “compensation”. That’s it! Their interest is a sham. The ultimate victims of the increase in cost are the 20,000,000 Australians at the middle and bottom of the food chain. That’s where the pass-on effect of the carbon dioxide starts and stops.

Quadrant Online - The economics of inundation

“If you pull your head out of the sand for five minutes and take a look at the prices of beachside suburban properties you’ll see that they haven’t moved down and in some instances have boomed.” This I found profoundly disturbing.