EU Carbon Collapse Deals Blow To Australia

[Australia's Labor Government] will revise down its carbon tax revenue estimates following a crash in the European carbon market, at a likely multi-billion dollar cost to the federal budget.

Australian carbon tax called 'ridiculous' by business leaders | The Australian

Opposition climate spokesman Greg Hunt said the Budget was based on the carbon price rising to $37 per tonne by 2020 and Australia was "completely out of line with the rest of the world and paying 550 per cent higher carbon tax than the European system".

Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey said the carbon tax was in ``utter chaos'' and if today's European price was applied to the Budget "there will be a budget hole of at least $7 billion in just one year".

Plans to drop climate debate from national curriculum 'unacceptable' | Environment | The Guardian

Leading environmental figures, including the broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and the mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington, have condemned government plans to drop debate about climate change from the national curriculum for children under 14 as "unfathomable and unacceptable".

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