From the Facebook account of Ruth Bonnett, these photos taken March 23rd in Brisbane, QLD
Link to interactive album below:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=307296&id=633636676&l=355ec5b242
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Cut income and capital gains taxes and tax GHG emissions instead. Why punish people for investing or working extra hard? Give them an incentive to conserve energy instead. This would reduce our dependence on foreign oil and other types of pollution. And it is possible that the scientists are right and the bloggers are wrong about that global warming thing. Could be.
[quote]Massive wildfires and major flooding recovery must be forcing most of the potential the rally members to drop their BBQ and lend a hand, money, and vote for no government aid[/quote]
Wildfires and floods in Australia? No sign of climate change there then. Everything is as it has always been. Move along.
Actually, I think the perceived lack of numbers is as a result of even more nefarious reasons than just “they all have jobs”. I live in DC which, I can assure you, is a bastion of “liberal consensus”. Conservative or contrary opinions, groups, rallies, protests, etc. are NOT greeted with warmth and light. In fact, the attitude toward anyone challenging the leftist narrative is treated with great hostility. Trust me, I know. Most polite and well meaning people are not showing up at these things just to avoid the inevitable confrontation. I’m sure that’s true in Brisbane too.
As was said before, we do our protesting at the ballot box.
Most Australians are deeply concerned by the blatant lie told by Ms. Gillard prior to the recent election. She has no mandate to introduce a carbon tax and so far her performance is extremely poor. She will not survive the next election and may go sooner; a coup from within her party, or a couple of by-elections will do the trick. No details of the proposed tax are known and most people are starting to realise that it will do little for the environment if anything at all, but seems to be a revenue raising issue putting Australian industry at a considerable disadvantage. The dire predictions made by the UN panel are not happening and if anything its getting cooler, but the “warmists” still have a lot of momentum.
Alexander K says:
March 23, 2011 at 3:37 am
Go Aussies! And show the mad politicians in NZ where their ridiculous ETS should go!
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Alexander. You are right but there is little hope of change. It is interesting to note that the recent Christchurch earthquake is estimated to cost N.Zers in the order of NZ$ 800m annually over the next few years to restore the city. At the same time we have the following:
Nick Smith’s (NZ Government Minister) Cabinet Paper noted that the New Zealand Treasury had estimated that the long-term costs of intensity-based allocation of units to industry and agriculture would be ‘very significant’, in the order of $NZ900 million per annum by 2030. One would have thought that at least the latter could be postponed until the former was sorted.
Don’t hold your breath Alexander.
Douglas
Mike says: March 23, 2011 at 7:21 am
Cut income and capital gains taxes and tax GHG emissions instead. Why punish people for investing or working extra hard? Give them an incentive to conserve energy instead. This would reduce our dependence on foreign oil and other types of pollution. And it is possible that the scientists are right and the bloggers are wrong about that global warming thing. Could be.
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Mike. It doesn’t work like that. Governments want the present level of taxation PLUS the ETS tax. Do you see any sign of tax cutting in your neck of the woods? It doesn’t happen where I live.
So oil is a pollution in your book it seems. I hope you don’t use any of it. And Mike, to which scientists are you referring?
One thing is certain, higher taxation increases centralised power, reduces independence of individuals and increases dependency upon central government. Is this what you want?
Douglas
Vince Causey says:
March 23, 2011 at 7:18 am
Just got off the radio listening to George Osborne’s budget speech in the UK
Unfortunately I think I also heard him say that he was introducing a Carbon (sic) floor price per metric tonne of £16 as from 2012.
I will have to check this out tomorrow in a broadsheet.
Well done to the Aussies that got out there on a work day and did their bit. I hope for Australia it turns out to be like the climategate exposure. I’m of the firm belief that the one of the biggest benefits of Climategate was that it gave a huge percentage of the population ( the averge citizen ) the “permission” to say what they what had been thinking about AGW but had not had the courage to say previously because they had doubted themselves , given what the MSM and the so called experts were saying.
In the same way I hope the initial rallies in Australia will help “mobilize” all those who would not normally protest in any way except the ballot box.
The other interesting thing that has happened in recent days is that it obvious the pro AGW people are getting worried judging by the number bombarding the blog sites with , in most cases , stupid trivial comments about those anti the tax. Someone is trying to coordinate it behind the scenes but they have failed to supply the lackies with cogent arguments for their view.
URkidding, you are kidding right?
Who doesn’t believe in Climate Change? Only ill educated clowns ‘believe’ that the earth’s climate is unchanging.
What WE don’t believe is that homeopathic levels of a trace gas can cause drastic /runaway/ tipping point/ climate armageddon! That’s a millenarian religious belief, with no scientific foundations.
You should watch out for the ones who want to pay admen taxpayers’ money to convince the public that it’s a good idea to pay tax… you’re kidding right?
With the majority of protesters apparently being pensioners, aren’t these the people who would benefit the most with the redistribution under Juliars new carbon Tax?
It goes to show that these people are far superior morally …than those who lie and deceive us about AGW and carbon pollution.
@ur momisugly John Brookes
Ta’ for the light-hearted post, gave me a chuckle!
cheers, ian
More on the rally from Gavin Atkins (via Tim Blair):
http://asiancorrespondent.com/50990/photos-from-no-carbon-tax-rally/
For our US friends who don’t know Oz politics, you’ll get tenure if you can correctly identify everyone he mentions.
From the rally held in Perth, Western Australia on the 23rd of March, 2011, against the Gillard-led government’s plan to introduce a “Carbon Tax”, going against her explicit pre-election promise of only 6 months before.
I’ve uploaded some rough, uncut videos to an album on Vimeo.
Unfortunately, the camera ran out of nanometres of storage capacity and the last half hour of the rally missed out on being recorded (by me). It’s all my fault.
The lofty ideology behind the introduction of this tax is really for the general public to swallow. The abstracted benefit is a wish for future climate stability but the concrete reality is the tax increase. This tax increase is necessary to fulfil an election promise to balance the budget within a short time frame and the obvious way, by increasing the GST (Goods and ServicesTax), currently fixed in stone at 10% is politically impossible.
Quite simple, bring out the big guns, Garnaut and Flannery, spin the public a fairy tale choc full of vague future planetary climate benefits, but quickly extract a tax from the combustion of carbon. The climate then keeps doing what the climate always has done but the tax increase is very real and very permanent (hey, we are not going to fix this in a hurry, are we?). Any failure of the climate to behave itself, in either direction,will be a reason to increase the tax even further.
Keep this self-flagellation up and our future really does look bleak.
I’m convinced the Gov’ment has put something in the beer; other than the usual list of 237 additives. Whatever it is, it’s working. Remember, real Aussies don’t drink water.
http://www.westvancouver.ca/Government/Level3.aspx?id=33292
For a good laugh… and an illustration of green back door infiltration.
Dear Ruth Bonnet,
Thanks for the photos of 23 March 2011. I have commented on my Blog about my thoughts on the Brisbane Anti-Carbon Dioxide Tax Rally.
http://contactjly.blogspot.com/2011/03/brisbane-anti-carbon-tax-rally-23-march.html
It’s the first time in 47 years I’ve been passionate about something enough to get out there and let my voice be heard. It was quite liberating actually.
Thank you Watts Up With That for all the support you give to people like me.
You do us such a great service. Cheers.
problem is we didnt know about rally..or i would have had a lot more support for bris..
stop selling us to the UN,,have a good look at what they are really trying to do..have a look at the corpoRATe giants that do not pay tax at all..hello this system is barbaric, take a look at usa we usually do not fall far behind them, and this is no different, the people their are starving, forget 3rd world countries being those you can close your eyes on and pretend it doesnt matter, as you wont be able to do that when its your own children holding out a rice dish!!!!
Even the socialist movement is freaked out over the carbon taxes:
“Labor, with the support of the Greens, is committed to imposing a carbon tax that will be used to hand billions of dollars to the big corporate polluters and so-called “green” companies, as well as help finance the planned corporate and income tax cuts. None of these measures will do anything to arrest global warming, while ordinary people will be left to try and pay inflated prices for energy, fuel and other essentials.”
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/vote-m25.shtml
I think that only when labor gets rid of Tim Flannery and returns to their roots will they rebound.