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Sky News AU
3 days ago
- Business
- Sky News AU
‘Spending addiction': Fears Labor government will reintroduce carbon tax
Sky News host Peta Credlin discusses the possibility of Labor reintroducing the carbon tax following former treasury secretary Ken Henry labelling it as the 'world's best' carbon policy. 'The Albanese government's so-called productivity summit is shaping up as a tax summit, and the one tax that seems to be gathering support – you guessed it – is the return of some sort of a carbon tax, Ms Credlin said. 'Now this is a government that's addicted to spending and addicted to union power; its union addiction means it can't address labour productivity, and its spending addiction means that it needs more and more revenue. 'It won't save the planet because any further cuts in emissions that we might secure here will be more than lost amidst the massive emissions increases coming from China and India as they strive to raise their people's standard of living.'
Sky News AU
3 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Albanese condemned for ‘going out of his way' to avoid Trump meeting
Sky News host Peta Credlin says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is 'going out of his way' to avoid meeting with President Trump whilst 'cosying up' to China. 'I pointed out how the Prime Minister is going out of his way to get closer to China and to distance himself from America,' Ms Credlin said. 'That's why he's so eager to cosy up to the Chinese dictator while going out of his way to avoid meeting the leader of the free world. 'Plainly, Labor wants AUKUS gone, but they want to be able to blame Donald Trump for the fact that we have no submarines to speak of and no credible defence force either. 'Labor is trying to goad the President into giving up on us.'
Sky News AU
3 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Atrocious decision' by Labor to delay response to antisemitism report
Sky News host Peta Credlin has torched the Albanese government for their 'atrocious decision' to delay their response to the antisemitism report. Education Minister Jason Clare said he would wait for a similar report on stamping out Islamophobia before his government moved forward with its antisemitism response. Former minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic has branded the government's antisemitism plan as 'heavy-handed'.
Sky News AU
4 days ago
- Business
- Sky News AU
‘Us or them, Prime Minister?': Albanese under pressure amid Aus-China Annual Leaders' meeting
Sky News host Peta Credlin discusses Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's talks with Chinese officials amid the Australia-China Annual Leaders' Meeting. 'Back to Beijing for a moment, the PM was able to avoid discussing the Port of Darwin because, he says, it wasn't raised in his meeting with the Chinese president,' Ms Credlin said. 'But it seems that his Chinese hosts were running a bit of a 'good cop, bad cop' routine, with Xi Jinping mostly inscrutable Chinese sweetness and light, and the tough stuff mostly left for Anthony Albanese's direct counterpart, China's Number Two, Lee Chung. 'Clearly, this was a rebuke of our policies on foreign investment, especially on any business with links to the Chinese Communist Party. 'Either he honours his election commitment to restore the Port of Darwin to Australian ownership, or he looks like he's caved in to the communist Chinese. 'So, what's it to be – us or them, Prime Minister?
Sky News AU
5 days ago
- Business
- Sky News AU
Labor ‘addicted to taxing' by ‘toying' with reintroduction of carbon tax
Sky News host Peta Credlin criticises the Albanese government's reliance on spending and how they are 'toying' with the reintroduction of a carbon tax despite prior denials. 'We know the Albanese government's addicted to spending, and what we now are learning too is they are addicted to taxing,' Ms Credlin said. 'The truth is that Gillard's carbon tax put up power prices by about ten per cent and that cost impost cascaded through the entire economy.'
