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Shifting the burden from goods to bads

20 December 2011

It is Australia’s move to price carbon, ultimately through a cap-and-trade scheme, that has generated most attention – and controversy. But carbon pricing is just one element of an ambitious reorientation of the tax and benefits system to penalise pollution and reward work, says Australia’s climate change minister, Greg Combet

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