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February 1999

April 1997

Climate Change, Consumerism & Waste, Forestry, Tax, Spending & the Budget, Water

Ecological Tax Reform in Australia: Using taxes and public spending to protect the environment without hurting the economy

by Clive Hamilton, Tor Hundloe and John Quiggin

While there is firm public support for stronger environmental protection, action on these issues in the past has been seriously constrained by the belief by governments that protecting the environment will have large economic costs. Ecological tax reform shows this need not be the case by arguing that carefully devised measures can both protect the

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