Australia lags trading nations on carbon price

By Lenore Taylor
Updated November 9 2012 - 1:34pm, first published October 18 2010 - 9:17pm

CHINESE power generators face what is in effect a carbon price eight times higher than Australian producers, and British companies pay 17 times more, according to a world-first study that challenges the argument a carbon price would penalise Australian industry while international competitors continue to pollute without penalty.

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