Putting a price on pollution and investing in clean, renewable energy is vital for protecting and improving our quality of life, tackling global warming and building a cleaner, healthier economy for all of us.
From July 1, we start a big change in our economy - moving to larger scale production of clean energy, protecting carbon in our soils and forests and helping people and businesses save money by saving energy.
We're giving businesses an incentive to change to a cleaner way of doing business. The Clean Energy Act makes them pay for the pollution they generate and we're helping Australians by using some of those funds to lift the tax free threshold and increase payments to households. We call it taxing what the polluters burn, not what you earn.
Over time, we'll be closing down coal fired power stations which cause cancer and asthma in local communities and drive global warming. Working with business to create jobs in the community, we will be replacing them with world-leading clean technologies like solar power stations, geo thermal, tidal, wind.
We'll make our homes more comfortable and cheaper to run with energy efficiency. We'll help our farmers take care of their land with programs that enrich the soil, improve production and reduce greenhouse pollution. And we'll take care of our native forests, grasslands and country to establish natural carbon stores and help our native wildlife to adapt to climate change.
Countdown to change
Between now and July 1, we'll be updating this page with a whole lot of great examples of why the Clean Energy Act is change for the better, how Tony Abbott is working to protect the old, polluting economy based on a campaign of deceptions, and what people around the world are doing to tackle global warming and build an economy that supports a better quality of life for people without polluting the planet.
Join us by sharing these updates on social media and talking to your friends and family about why the change on July 1 is change for the better.
