New Australia

Green Tax Shift + No Population Growth + More Public Transport + Cost Effective Defence

NewAustralia applauds PM Julia Gillard's decision to push ahead with the Carbon Tax.

While the Carbon Tax as currently formulated provides too much 'compensation' to polluters it is still provides a stronger carbon price than an emission trading Scheme.

Our Suggested Policy Solutions

This site promotes simple and cost-effective policy solutions for a strong and independent Australia.

	The Green Tax Shift Cut Payroll Tax (as per Henry Review) $25,000 Tax Free Threshold (as per Henry Review) Paid for by taxes on imports, pollution & waste. Providing a greener economy with more jobs.
	Saving the Biosphere No population growth - for Australia or the World Immediate action on climate, water & biodiversity A New Kyoto Protocol to push carbon pricing. Quickly turning around decades of neglect.
	The Energy Revolution A 30% MRET target A 30 cents per kW/h feed in tariff for renewables. More efficient vehicles Made possible by shifting subsidies from fossil to renewable energy.
	Rail not Road More public transport - more freight by rail Replace level crossings with road bridges Federal control of transport Made possible by shifting road funding to sustainable transport.
	Cost Effective Self Defence Self-reliant self-defence Cost-effective fighter planes Submarines not surface vessels Better defence for Australia at a cheaper price.
	Free National Driver's Licence & Registration Free national third-party insurance scheme A balancing increase in fuel excise Link Learner's permit eligibility to school performance The more you drive, the more you pay.
	First Home Buyer Apartments 50,000 discount apartments for first home buyers per annum Fire and flood resistant housing Made possible by phasing out Negative Gearing for Property Speculators and the First Home Buyers grant.
	More Employment Cut Payroll Tax Lower Dollar An Employment Bonus For a strong, independent economy.
	Streamlined Public Health Services State Control of all health services Removing the buck-passing and blame-shifting between Federal and State governments.
	Supporting Regional Australia No tax on farm income! New crops, new opportunities Active decentralisation Made possible by shifting tax on to pollution & water wastage.
	Better Public Education Needs based funding Free kinder State control of education Made possible by having more cost effective self defence.
	Halving Crime A 50 cent cap on poker machines Controlled government sale of drugs to registered users Volumetric taxing of alcohol Slashing the harm done by gambling, alcohol and drugs.
	Telecommunications Cutting back the $43 Billion Broadband roll out - it's too expensive More robust systems to cope with disasters No internet censorship

Monorails Australia Web site

This linked site is dedicated to promoting high capacity monorails as an urban transit solutions for Australian cities.

Recent Submissions

The Monorail Alternative

East - West Monorail Submission.

Green Hosting

The World Clock

From www.PeterRussell.com. See also NewAustralia's Population and Defence Policies.

Democrats

NewAustralia supports Australian Democrat policy and has been involved in policy formation with the Democrats.

Green Energy News

Courtesy of Energy Matters

NEWS

Earth at 400ppm

11^th May 2013: The atmosphere breaks through the 400ppm level for the first time since the Pliocene. Article.

10 ways to fill budget hole

1^st May 2013: Tim Colebatch's solutions for the tax system. Article.

Revenue down, deficit up

30^th Apr 2013: Tim Colebatch shows the deficit mostly caused by a slump in revenue, not an increase in spending. Article. Our Solutions.

High dollar killing economy

23^rd Apr 2013: With the end of the mining boom looming our high interest rates and high dollar are killing the economy. Article. Our Solutions.

EU Carbon Price Collapse

17^th Apr 2013: The EU Carbon price has collapsed due to a failure to deal with the over-allocation of permits. This is why we support a carbon tax rather than carbon trading. Article. Our Solutions.

Auditor-General slams traffic inaction

17^th Apr 2013: The Victorian auditor-general criticises the lack of any demand management action of traffic. Article. Our Solutions.

Big Obesity Rise

16^th Apr 2013: More an more patients with BMI over 50 turning up at hospital. Article. Our Solutions.

Abbott: Nothing for rail

4^th Apr 2013: Tony Abbott confirms he will only fund roads. Article. Our Solutions.

$14 bn cost of booze

3^rd Apr 2013: A new study says alcohol misuse costs the community more than double the revenue raised by tax on the sale of alcohol products. Article. Our Solutions.

20% MRET Retained

22^nd Mar 2013: The Gillard government rejects a push to cut the 20% MRET. Article. Our Solutions.

Obesity panel pushes junk tax

27^th Feb 2013: A panel of nutritionists, doctors and health economists recommends a junk food tax. Article. Our Solutions.

Defence obsessed with JSF

20^th Feb 2013: Former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon has slammed the defence force chiefs he once worked with as 'obsessed' with the JSF. Article. Our Solutions.

Billions for brown coal

20^th Feb 2013: Over-generous carbon tax compensation delivers billions for coal power stations. Article. Our Solutions.

Monorails Australia

31^st Jan 2013: New Monorails Australia site and company launched.

EU carbon price collapse

26^th Jan 2013: Over allocation of permits causes the EU carbon price to plummet. This shows a carbon tax is better than a complex and fragile carbon trading regime. Article. Our Solutions.

Neo-Liberal Fraud

21^st Jan 2013: George Monbiot on how the neo-liberal prescription of lower taxes for the rich, outsourcing, deregulation and privatisation is making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Article.

Warming due to humans

15^th Dec 2012: New evidence means it is virtually certain that climate change is caused by greenhouse gasses released by humans. Article. Our Solutions.

Education disaster

11^th Dec 2012: Australian children were beaten by students from 26 countries in year four reading in the 2011 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. Article. Our Solutions.

Doha Despair

9^th Dec 2012: Despair as climate talks fail at the usual hurdle of trying to work out who can emit what. Article. Our Solutions.

Ecstasy less harmful than alcohol

4^th Dec 2012: Evidence ecstasy is far less dangerous than alcohol for the user and society. So why is it banned? Article. Our Solutions.

Permafrost is melting

27^th Nov 2012: Melting permafrost to release vast amounts of greenhouse gasses. Article. Our Solutions.

World Bank climate warning

19^th Nov 2012: New World Bank report warns of a drastically hotter planet. Article. Our Solutions.

Asian arms race hots up

19^th Nov 2012: As Australia cuts it's defence spending and wastes what it does spend Asia's spending has gone up 13.5%. Article. Our Solutions.

Solar Credits Subsidy Slashed

16^th Nov 2012: Despite the bad news on climate change pouring in the Federal Government keeps slashing renewable subsidies. No sign of cutbacks to fossil fuel subsidies! Article. Our Solutions.

Pay off desal now

24^th Sept 2012: Ken Davidson outlines how much can be saved by borrowing to pay off the desal plant now. This could also be done for many other PPP debt schemes. Article. Our Solutions.

Climate tipping point is near

23^rd Sept 2012: With arctic sea ice melting at record rates there is concern we are close to irreversible change. Article. Our Solutions.

Road pricing

13^th Sept 2012: Proposal for more toll roads and congestion charges to provide road pricing - but not our idea of replacing 'rego' with road tolls. Article. Our Solutions.

Decriminalised cannabis and ecstasy

10^th Sept 2012: A new report by Australia21 has recommended that registered users be able to buy cannabis and ecstasy from approved suppliers, most likely chemists. Article. Our Solutions.

Big Coal still rules

6^th Sept 2012: New research proves that dirty coal power plants will be grossly over compensated under the carbon tax. Article. Our Solutions.

Ideology over evidence

5^th Sept 2012: As in so many areas of policy Education is also suffering from the dogged implementation of failed ideas. Article. Our Solutions.

Sabotaging Gonski

27^th August 2012: Both parties now seem to be determined to tip even more money to the elite schools. Article. Our Solutions.

Record Arctic melting

27^th August 2012: This year’s melting breaks all records and confirms the trend. Article. Our Solutions.

Massive US base?

1^st August 2012: A report to the US Defence Department includes an option for a massive base in West Australia. Article. Our Solutions.

Super Fund Rip-off

31^st July 2012: Ken Davidson on the disastrous idea that super funds buy government monopoly assets like roads, rail and water assets so governments can build new infrastructure. more...

Victorians loose $38bn on pokies

14^th July 2012: In the 20 years since pokies were introduced Victorians have lost a staggering $38 Billion. Article. Our Solutions.

Record Melting in Arctic

2^nd July 2012: This year's melting breaks records reinforcing the need for other governments to follow Australia's lead and increase the price on carbon. Article. Our Solutions.

Julia triples the TFT!

1^st July 2012: Julia's carbon tax more than triples the Tax Free Threshold from $6,000 to $18,200. Huge subsidies still exist for fossil fuel consumption but this is a good start and a good example to the rest of the world. Article. Our Solutions.

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