Posted on 10/14/2014 4:26:02 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Australian Political Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has today stunned observers by reversing his position on a carbon tax – ruling out any future reinstatement of a carbon tax.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald;
“We will not have a carbon tax, the Australian people have spoken and Labor is not going to go back to that,” Mr Shorten told reporters in Sydney on Saturday.
Despite turning his back on a carbon tax, the Labor Opposition Leader continues to back the introduction of a “market based mechanism” for tackling “carbon pollution”.
One of the core platforms of the current Abbott government, which helped propel him to electoral victory last year, was the promised abolition of the deeply unpopular carbon tax.
Until recently, Labor advocated reinstating a carbon tax, pending the negotiation of a market based pricing mechanism, but they now appear to be backing away from carbon pricing, however tentatively – possibly due to the deep unpopularity of the carbon tax, and to internal pressure from their union supporters, some of whom are concerned about the impact of carbon pricing on jobs and pay.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/08/aussie-renewable-target-everyone-gets-an-exemption/
Abbott’s Liberal National Coalition government, and Coalition state governments, have been keen to keep voters focussed on how much carbon pricing cost them in their daily lives, by passing well publicised cost reductions back to consumers.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-21/public-transport-fares-to-get-cheaper-in-queensland/5758504
h/t to Eric Worrall
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Oh good and John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) and the alphabet channels will report and endorse this in 3...2...1...
John Kerry will probably tell us that Australia is the worlds number one threat and that we must act quickly to eliminate these heretics.
Algore sad.
Nice to see that some people have some common sense. Now if only in America......
Good on ya, Mates!
Good for them
bottom line
nobody really believes this hoax
Let’s ask Fred...he is down there.
I think the Unions have had a little word in Labor’s ear.
Australia becomes a climate pariah and yet tourists flock to visit the Axis of Carbon!
Yes,I remember him....as well as naturalman1975 who posts here fairly regularly.
the Guardian says Australia should apologize for voting out the Carbon Tax.
In my experience a beer called Victoria Bitter is quite popular there...at least in the areas where I've traveled.I,personally,would prefer to put another shrimp on the barbie.
Lies.
Like zombies they will never give up, they will just change the name and claim it is something new to deal with a new manufactured crisis.
“and John Kerry (who served in Vietnam)”
Which side though?
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