Labor’sSecret Tax on Living Costs.
ADH Staff WriterMarch 8, 2024
Governments always have their secretagendas but this one is frightening.
Sitting quietly on a list of ‘priorityagenda item’ for the Albanese Government is one of the most destructive taxprogrammes ever floated in Australia.
And yet, just about no-one knowsanything about it.
You’re about to see why.
As always, new ways to take money andliberties away always get pleasant sounding names.
This one is called the “Nature PositivePlan” with a warm, almost harmless sounding slogan “Better for the environment,Better for business”.
You can bet the house on it … it’sneither.
The Nature Positive Plan is the craftywork of Canberra-based bureaucrats, with the sign-off of unworldly academics,inspired by anti-development activists.
But it’s happening with the backing ofhard-left inner-suburban ideologues in The Labor Party – no less than The PrimeMinister and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.
When this kicks in, it threatensfarming, it’ll push up the price of new real-estate, blow the budget onbuilding much needed roads, and opening new mines … forget it.
Ironically, even flavour of the monthrenewable energy projects like new wind farms and paddocks covered in solarpanels will cost more.
Up goes the price of power – yet again.
Let’s put this simply: if the projectinvolves the turning of soil or the cutting down of a tree, or digging a hole,The Nature Positive Plan will get you.
This is just another tax adding to thecost of living.
It’s a tax on progress.
So why have you never heard of it?
That’s the multi-billion-dollarquestion – which is actually how much extra it will likely cost Australian …right at a time we can less afford it.
The policy is the Albanese government’splanned overhaul of the already complicated and expensive batch of Federalenvironmental laws.
You’d be used to the phrase ‘red tape’.This is ‘green tape’ to the max!
Weaved into it all is the Left’santi-development mindset and the impact will be dollar signs.
Major new projects and development willbe ground to a halt or be forced just to pay up.
It’ll mean more lawyers, more courtchallenges, more power to the opponents – in the end a minefield of newregulations and rules to make every step towards getting things done tougher.
Probably why most of this being kepthushed.
Normally, when a government overhaullaws of national interest, they’re loud and proud about it.
Not this one.
So far there have been threeclosed-door, information sessions to ‘fellow traveller’ environment groups.
The chosen people allowed in to “seehow it works” walk away confused with nothing more than their own handwrittennotes.
No-one even gets a take-home pack, letalone any draft legislation.
At a time when mining is carryingAustralia - every indication is, it’ll hit them the hardest.
Every mining company we’ve approachedabout “Nature Positive” is in the dark.
Nowhere can you find a proper outlineof who or what or when any of this will happen.
In fact, the only reason we can tellyou anything about it now is because the green activists are starting to gloat.
The Government claims it’s all outthere.
That’s a straight out lie.
If you trawl the Parliament website,you’ll find a 50-page glossy motherhood booklet that sells all the virtues andbenefits mixed up with photos of koalas and rainforests.
Nowhere is there anything that tellsyou, what’s it going to cost.
Labor was badly humiliated by the RuddGillard Rudd era mining tax and it will never live down the lie of the “NoCarbon Tax under the government I lead”.
The Nature Positive Plan is shaping asjust another one of these – a sly way of digging out more money.
And just like the consequences of thecarbon tax and every other ‘save the planet’ initiative – who ends up payingmore?
You will.
