Saturday, May 05, 2012

TheSpec - Cold snap may have “wiped out” fruit growers

Cherry Avenue Farms, a pick-your-own operation in Lincoln, is bracing to lose 90 per cent of its cherry, peach, plum and apricot crops.

ALP hits panic button over carbon tax fears | thetelegraph.com.au

JULIA Gillard's frontbench has hit the panic button over the carbon tax with senior ministers warning it is "killing" the government, and others touting Greg Combet as a leadership option.

Divisions have erupted over the sales pitch and design of the tax, with some demanding the Prime Minister accelerate the planned move from a fixed to a floating carbon price, or boost planned compensation for struggling families.

Julia Gillard is standing firm but her frontbench are in despair. "The carbon tax is killing us," a senior minister told The Sunday Telegraph.

Twitter / @PeterGleick: "@Angie_Coiro "Anti-aborti ...

" "Anti-abortioners to new depths Same day went batshit crazy. Something in the water" Don't blame the water.

1 comment:

Eric Simpson said...

"JULIA Gillard's frontbench has hit the panic button over the carbon tax with senior ministers warning it is "killing" the government..."

I'm not from Australia, yet I know that we witnessed in the Gillard govt an arrogance and hubris the likes of which the world has never seen, at least since Obamacare passed. An unbridled trampling of the will of the people -- to support their elitist view of the world. Stop the insanity!