A TAX ON THE TERRITORY
July 20th, 2011
Julia Gillard’s carbon tax is a nasty slug on Territory families, Territory businesses and Territory households.
It is a blatant cash grab that has the full support of the Henderson Labor Government despite the impact it will have on thousands of Territory homes and businesses.
Failed Government policies have already made the Territory one of the most expensive jurisdictions in the country – now Labor is conspiring to make it even more expensive.
Territorians already struggle under the weight of some of the most expensive rents in the country, record house prices and spiralling electricity bills.
A trip to the supermarket can empty your wallet.
Now Julia Gillard and Paul Henderson want to make the Territory even more expensive. Under the tax, the average price of food will increase by 80 cents a week, electricity will increase by $3.30 and the average hit on households will be $9.90 a week.
For many hard-working families that’s a potential tax increase in excess of $500 a year.
Don’t be fooled by the compensation package. Thousands of Territorians will pay more under the new tax, despite what Labor would like you to believe.
And don’t believe the tax is just targeting the country’s 500 biggest polluters because those companies will have to pass on their costs – so ultimately it’s the customer who will pay.
PowerWater is one of the 500 companies who will have to pay carbon tax – which means Territorians will pay more for electricity.
Julia Gillard and Paul Henderson have something else in common – they’ve both lied to the community about the tax.
Before the last Federal election, Julia Gillard promised there wouldn’t be a carbon tax under the Government she led.
Not true!
In February, Paul Henderson said the tax ‘must not come at a higher cost to Territorians’ and that he ‘wouldn’t sign up to a tax that leaves Territory families worse off’.
Not true!
Built around a lie, the carbon tax will do nothing to ease global warming or stop climate change and couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Northern Territory.
Tourism is already in the doldrums due to the high Aussie dollar and Qantas and Virgin say the tax will increase ticket prices.
The carbon tax is expected to restrict future investment in the mining industry, while the pastoral sector is already reeling from the Commonwealth’s live export ban.
Instead of being Julia Gillard’s puppet, Paul Henderson should honour his promise, stand up for Territorians and oppose the carbon tax.
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CERTAINTY IN SENTENCING
February 3rd, 2012Shadow Justice Minister, John Elferink, says he has misgivings about the six month non-parole period handed to an 18-year-old who bashed a man, stole his car and escaped from custody.
Mr Elferink said the young man had earlier been given a 12 month non-parole period for the stabbing attack on a man as he tried to protect his baby daughter.
“In both cases, lenient non-parole periods appear to have been handed to this offender,” Mr Elferink said.
“This young man appears not to have appreciated the initial non-parole period handed down for the stabbing, and now he has been given another apparently lenient non-parole sentence for the later offence.
“Sentences of this nature disappoint the broader community.
“There is a public expectation that people who are sentenced for a violent crime actually do real time.
“A court's authority is primarily drawn from public confidence and when that confidence is eroded it can ultimately attract Parliamentary intervention.
“The Country Liberals believe sentences, particularly for violent assaults, should be more in line with the head sentence.”
Further comment: John Elferink 0418 406 400
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