2011 Australian carbon tax and the coal industry

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On July 2011 the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, unveiled the details of a carbon tax package which had been negotiated with the Australian Greens and the three independents, Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott and Andrew Wilkie. The main publicly available data on coal industry employment in Australia is collated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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