Truly the ‘white’ man or major party for that matter will only realise you can’t eat money when the last Liverpool Plains black soil paddock is an open cut, the last aquifer is saline, the last 6 year old big red kangaroo is fluffy slippers, the last cheap house for rent is taken by one of 300K pa enthusiastic migrants here to boost the profits of Westfield, Meriton, ColesWorth etc etc ….. who finance said major party.

EITE industry players are asking for handouts because they think they will be competitively disadvantaged in international trade when their carbon inclusive prices are compared with international firms that are not forced to include carbon pricing in costs and yet operate in the same international market. These EITE industries include the usual big polluters, aluminium sector, coal mining (for export) and others, but it does not include the stationary energy sector. Stationary energy is energy generated for domestic use. It cannot be exported or imported (generally) and so it is not subject to international competition from firms outside the national CPRS.

Coal fired power stations are thus not comparable to aluminium exports, and should be fully included in an emissions trading scheme WITHOUT compensation. Carbon costs should be fully passed on to domestic consumers where we will be able to choose between dirty expensive fuel and increasingly cheaper nice sunny clean stuff.