The Point Weekend Quiz
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An influential farming group has called for reform of Australia’s largest fossil fuel subsidy, the $10 billion per year Fuel Tax Credit Scheme (FTCS). The call comes in a new report, Energy Sovereignty for Regional Australia, commissioned by Farmers for Climate Action and written by University of Western Australia Adjunct Professor Ray Wills.
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This morning, at Senate estimates, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) were asked about the drop in emissions since 2005. Almost all of the drop cited was due to the inclusion of land clearing.
Last week, Health Minister Mark Butler told the ABC that the government would be moving forward with its proposal to change private health insurance rebates for older Australians. The proposed change has prompted the usual warning: if people over 65 pay more for cover, they will drop their insurance and flood public hospitals. That sounds plausible. But the claim is overstated.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has decided that 'ramping up' is his go-to phrase to use about the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). The problem is that only one fossil fuel item is actually going up, and it’s not the PRRT. It’s the Fuel Tax Credit, a subsidy to the fossil fuel industry.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing backlash after quoting inaccurate statistics from the gas lobby, while defending his decision not to impose a 25% tax on gas exports in the federal budget. Mr Albanese was interviewed on radio during a post-budget trip to Perth, during which he claimed that “gas companies paid $22 billion of tax last year”. The $22 billion figure is not an official estimate by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), but a figure produced by a gas lobby group.
The Albanese Government’s move to tackle the CGT discount is aimed at addressing one of the very settings many economists and housing advocates argue helped push the dream of home ownership further out of reach.
