# Capture — no carbon tax

- **Claim filed:** “There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.”
- **Who:** Julia Gillard
- **URL:** https://www.smh.com.au/national/pm-says-no-carbon-tax-under-her-govt-20100816-126ru.html
- **Date on page:** 2010-08-16
- **Publisher:** The Sydney Morning Herald
- **Title:** PM says no carbon tax under her govt
- **Captured:** 2026-08-15
- **Method:** saved HTML (`smh-2010-08-16.html`, `pm-jones-2011-02-25.html`, `pm-senate-2011-11-08.html`, `clean-energy-act.html`, `carbon-tax-repeal.html`)

## Verbatim (16 August 2010)

SMH, Network Ten:

> There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

The SMH page is now a thin client; the lede and quote were read from the live article on capture. The official replay is the PM transcript below.

## Official replay and the other meter

`pm-jones-2011-02-25.html` — PM Transcripts 17704, 25 February 2011, Alan Jones, 2GB
https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-17704

AUDIO CLIP:

> There will be no carbon tax under the Government I lead.

Jones: she also told *The Australian* the day before the election, “I rule out a carbon tax.”

Gillard, same interview, on the mechanism announced the day before:

> rather than play any semantic word games I was frank enough with the Australian people to say that that first few years would work effectively like a tax.

> There will a fixed price in the meantime. That is effectively like a tax and I just wanted to be straightforward about it

`pm-senate-2011-11-08.html` — PM Transcripts 18251, 8 November 2011
https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-18251

> A fixed carbon price of $23 a tonne will apply from 1 July 2012, moving to a flexible price after three years.

Greg Combet, same release:

> It is a charge on pollution, not a tax on households or small businesses.

`carbon-tax-repeal.html` — Federal Register of Legislation
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2014A00083/latest/text

Title of the 2014 Act:

> Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Act 2014

`clean-energy-act.html` — Federal Register of Legislation, Clean Energy Act 2011
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2011A00131/latest/text

Register page for Act No. 131 of 2011. The live text view is a JS app; the $23 figure is taken from the contemporaneous PM release, not from a scraped section number.

## What this file does not do

It does not file “Ju-liar” or “carbon pricing is a scam.” It files “no carbon tax” against the fixed $23 charge she later said worked like a tax, and against the repeal Act that used the noun she had ruled out.