A less competitive Australia

C-Day or L-Day, (Peninsula News, June 25) I'm not sure which is more appropriate.

C-Day to commemorate the introduction of a tax on carbon dioxide, a tax apparently paid only by the "biggest 500 polluters" yet one we all need compensation for?

Or perhaps L-Day to commemorate the biggest political lie in Australian history perpetrated by the worst government in living memory?

All this while the Earth stubbornly refuses to adhere to IPCC computer generated predictions of catastrophic warming and instead has the audacity to display a cooling trend for the last decade.

I can't support a policy which believes Australian coal burned in Australia (to provide cheap power for Australian industry) is bad and must be taxed but Australian coal exported to China and burned is good and doesn't attract a tax, surely the result must be a less competitive Australia?

I cannot point to any tax on production that ever made a country more competitive on the world stage.

Unless of course we are all to be retrained as solar installers as deputy Prime Minister Bob Brown plans.

Email, 25 Jun 2012

Craig Hillman, Empire Bay