Time for the mining diesel rebate to go

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It’s time.

Louise Crawford – convener of the highly influential Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) – moved an amendment to ensure the Albanese government’s tax policies remove disincentives for orderly decarbonisation.

“Labor will ensure that all policies, including taxation, work together to provide appropriate incentives and remove disincentives for orderly decarbonisation,” the amendment, passed unopposed by delegates, says.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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