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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.