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Australia Senate backs carbon tax (BBC)
Australia's Senate has approved a controversial law on pollution, after years of bitter political wrangling.

The Clean Energy Act will force the country's 500 worst-polluting companies to pay a tax on their carbon emissions from 1 July next year.

The Senate vote is a victory for Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who had given strong backing to the plan.

Environmentalists have broadly backed the scheme, but there have been large public protests against it.

Opposition parties have argued that the tax would cause job losses and raise the cost of living, and they have promised to repeal the legislation if they win the next election, due in 2013.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15632160
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1. Australian Senate passes carbon tax
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/08/australia-senate-passes-carbon-tax

Australian Senate passes carbon tax

Vote is a victory for Julia Gillard, who staked her government's future on the most comprehensive carbon price scheme outside Europe

Reuters
guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 November 2011 22.20 EST

Australia's parliament has passed landmark laws to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade, giving fresh impetus to December's global climate talks in South Africa.



The vote is a major victory for the embattled prime minister, Julia Gillard, who staked her government's future on what will be the most comprehensive carbon price scheme outside Europe despite deep hostility from voters and the opposition.

The scheme is a central plank in the government's fight against climate change and aims to halt the growth of the country's growing greenhouse gas emissions from a resources-led boom and age-old reliance on coal-fired power stations.

It sets a fixed carbon tax of A$23 ($23.78) a tonne on the top 500 polluters from July 2012, then moves to an emissions trading scheme from July 2015. Companies involved will need a permit for every tonne of carbon they emit.

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