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May 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Australian Greens have joined the federal coalition in attacking Labor’s carbon tax compensation advertisements, which don’t actually mention the carbon tax.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott predicts the television, radio and print “political propaganda” ads will blow up in the government’s face.
“This is the tax which dare not speak its name,” he told reporters in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Mr Abbott said the government was spending millions on the campaign but was too scared to mention what the assistance was for.
“The public are sick of dishonesty from governments and from political leaders,” he said.
“These carbon tax ads are going to blow up big time in the government’s face.”
Greens leader Christine Milne is also upset with Labor’s approach, describing it as a missed opportunity to explain how the carbon price, which starts in seven weeks, will actually work.
“It really disappoints me,” Senator Milne told ABC Radio.
“If you are actually going to lead people you have to explain to them what are the threats to them and to the country into the future and how we are going to address it.”
The carbon tax is to be imposed on the biggest emitters, who are expected to pass on increased energy costs to customers through higher prices.
Senator Milne said the government should have linked increased extreme weather events to the need for a carbon tax.
Instead the ads, launched on Monday, explain that millions of Australians will get additional help with their expenses as “the first part of the Australian government’s household assistance package”.
There’s no mention of the carbon price.
Families who receive welfare will get extra cash in their bank accounts from Wednesday. Pensioners will get their first payments in a fortnight.
Low- and middle-income earners will benefit from a tripling in the tax-free threshold from July 1.
Treasurer Wayne Swan denied the government was trying to hide the carbon price.
“This is a laughable criticism,” he told ABC Radio.
“We have been talking about a carbon price in this country for the past five years.
“What we’re doing is informing people of what they’re going to see in their bank accounts.
“The government in no way apologises for doing that.”
Some $14 million will be spent this financial year on the campaign, with $22 million budgeted for 2012/13.
Opposition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt told ABC Radio it was a waste of public money.
When the tax starts on July 1 it will be like “a python that will progressively tighten and cause greater and greater damage in manufacturing industries, to families … and around the economy”, he said.
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