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Carbon plan to cost Oz economy $30B in growth

THE Australian economy will lose $30 billion in gross domestic product growth by 2018 if domestic carbon prices remained higher than European prices, an industry sponsored economic modelling of the Gillard government's carbon tax plan shows.

Carbon plan to cost Oz economy $30B in growth

Commissioned by the Minerals Council of Australia, and carried out by the Centre for International Economics, it warns having a ceiling and floor price of carbon at $23 a tonne and $15 a tonne respectively...

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