‘MYSTERIOUSLY, once the election was over, an OECD report with a Treasury official’s input emerged indicating the carbon tax would need to be 10 times the EU rate and twice the $38-per-tonne level posited by Treasury to allow Australia to meet its 5 per cent carbon reduction goal…
…Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson would have known of the report’s findings months ago….’   source
That’s the supposedly “politically neutral” Treasury.  Government bureaucracy is an organ of the left.