Are we all ok?

And so the sun rose in the east and set in the west, the birds chirped and the cats and the dogs did not die and that was the end of the first day. Whyalla still stands and no one burnt to death at the post, yet the feared carbon tax came into existence on the first day of the new financial year. The last parliamentary sitting week before the winter break was consumed by debate about the negative consequences of the new tax, but having lived through the first day, I can honestly say that the sky did not fall, and Chicken Little was wrong. Will we eventually feel the pinch of the dreaded tax? Will we be living on the streets by the end of the month? Listening to the politicians in Canberra can be misleading, one minute you think the world will be ok and the next whole cities will be eradicated. The truth is, no one will really understand the full impact of the carbon price until the water, and electricity bill need to be paid, maybe until the end of the next financial year, when the tax free threshold having almost tripled leaves more money in your pocket. Whatever the case, whether it be that you get reimbursed or not, the big question is will it help the environment? Will it actually help curb the amount of carbon dioxide we send into the atmosphere each year? Only time will tell, but one thing is certain, this morning whilst delayed as I was waiting to board my plane from Adelaide to Melbourne with all the QANTAS check-in stations out, standing among my fellow travelers the consensus was, that the delays we're because of Julia Gillard's carbon tax!! If that's the case we may never know, one thing is certain though, and that is unless people feel that they are better off this year than last year, our Prime Minister will have a hard time convincing people to vote for her come the end of next year.