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Flat White

The carbon crusades of Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese

6 December 2022

10:00 AM

6 December 2022

10:00 AM

New Zealand plans to introduce a fart tax in 2025. The problem is, the Ardern government hasn’t discussed the detail about how it would work, what the rate would be, and how it would be administered. Given Ardern’s sinking popularity, she may be feeling the pulse of the country and discovering that it’s highly unlikely she will be in power in 2025 when the ‘said’ tax is meant to be introduced.

In Australia, Labor has honoured its cross-Pacific red sisterhood and jumped on the tax.

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