Some programs to be totally abolished.
“PUBLIC servants are drawing up plans to collapse 33 climate change schemes run by seven departments and eight agencies into just three bodies run by two departments under a substantial rewrite of the administration of carbon abatement schemes under the Coalition,” says this article in the Australian.
Coalition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt, who briefed public servants on the dramatic restructure of the federal climate change bureaucracy before the election was called, yesterday confirmed the Coalition was committed to proceeding with the plan.
The move is forecast to save the government tens of millions of dollars.
The Climate Change Authority, which sets emissions caps, the Climate Commission, which has conducted research into climate change, and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, which funds renewable technologies, are all slated to be abolished under the plans.
“(The Labor Party) . . . simply got it wrong when it came to these toxic new taxes,” Mr Abbott said.
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