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  • Tibor Majlath: We are sometimes reminded that network/service charges make up nearly 50% of an electricity bill. The total bill (electricity cost + service charge) attracts 10% tax as the Coalition's GST. ... (18 August 2018)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Tibor WA is fortunate to have had a government with the fore sight to preserve gas for domestic use. Queensland ounce had extremely cheap electricity because Bjelke-Petersen mandated that... (13 February 2018)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Why is that Mar? Instead of personal attacks you could have asked yourself why federal Coalition members were initially against any protection of the domestic gas market even though WA under... (9 February 2018)
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  • Mar Anton: Tibor, I think you need to get out more. (5 February 2018)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Seems to be a fine distinction between an individual taking money for personal gain and any political party taking hundreds of thousands in donations generated by evidently philanthropic desires... (5 December 2017)
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  • Patti Luskan: So Mr Turnbill you think low income earners should be grateful if we get a $2.00 per week reduction in our electricity bills , No thats not good enough , lift your act and start delivery some... (26 October 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Not long ago The Coalition's leader TONY Abbott dismissed emissions trading schemes as markets for the "non-delivery of an invisible substance". It is now surprising that market trading of... (24 October 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The PM says that "The rise in the price of gas was entirely a consequence of the Labor Party's failure to apply any level of business competence to the management of national energy policy.... (24 October 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Energy prices will not be brought down. The PM is misleading in his claim. The best we can hope for is a slowing in the rate of increases in prices. (10 August 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: It is so easy to make vague statements. The wholesale price of gas increased because of the high demand by the three Queensland LNG exporters. (14 June 2017)
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  • Dwight Walker: It is good news that government limiting gas exports has led to lower local gas prices - supply and demand. (14 June 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Why has it taken four years by the Coalition to decide to ensure yet again to clean up the energy mess left by the Labor Party? (1 June 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Labor's language is very insightful according to the PM. Much the same insightful sentiment as the Treasurer claiming that Howard and Costello paid back Labor's debt of $96 billion. It was... (13 May 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The race to the bottom with tax cuts simply ignores the fact that nation states are not all the same. Government subsidies and protectionism all distort the competiveness of trade. Tax cuts... (12 May 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Where does policy on the run lead to? Policy on the run is a sign that there never has been a national policy concerning the important issue of energy. At least the politics over the situation... (3 April 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Did electricity prices decline 'with the abolition of the carbon tax'? You have to wonder whether there were extra price rises hidden behind the carbon tax which was used as a convenient... (28 March 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: "He said, she said" claims of skyrocketing power bills. Not long ago the Coalition ran the scare campaign that Labor's Carbon Tax was to blame for high power bills. Now, the Coalition... (2 March 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Labor is just as bad at loading costs onto consumers as the Coalition. No one manages anything properly because we keep paying higher and higher energy prices even without a carbon tax. (17 February 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Remarkable how one can give away $50 billion in tax cuts to business when "We need to be able to fund all of our social welfare commitments from our revenue, and that means we have to make... (15 February 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: If the AEMO had told federal public servants that renewables were not to blame, why do the PM and his ministers still blame wind power when the government acknowledged that the SA blackout was... (14 February 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The PM says that "the Labor Party's record on energy is not a theoretical thing; it is there for all to see: a 100 per cent increase during their time in government...". Electricity charged... (9 February 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The lights going out in the "socialist paradise in Mayo" says the PM is "the consequence of Labor's reckless approach to energy". Class war at its best. It is also a consequence of the... (9 February 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The PM seems to be proud of the NBN's progress when he says "not to speak of completing the NBN years and years ahead of time...". I have a letter which said I would have the NBN installed in... (9 February 2017)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The PM wants to do all we can to ensure post-truth politics has no place in Australia. Yet he claims that "In October, we delivered a tax cut to middle-income Australian taxpayers." with a... (2 December 2016)
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  • Charlie Schroeder: It never ceases to amaze me that the only thing that Mitch Fifield and Malcolm Turnbull concentrate on is the rollout of the NBN. Never on the lack of reliability and degrading speed. These... (12 October 2016)
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