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As Australia anticipates its carbon tax, Anna Petherick contends that of the world's dirtiest economies, this nation is leading the way in the design of policies to price emissions.

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Figure 1: The expected inflationary impact of the new carbon tax on the Australian economy, in the context of other perturbations in recent history.

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  1. Anna Petherick is a freelance journalist based in Devon, UK,

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Petherick, A. Duty down under. Nature Clim Change 2, 20–21 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1339

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