Abbott's climate change policy would boost 'red tape': Rudd

The Australian ^ | December 14, 2009 | Samantha Maiden

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KEVIN Rudd has warned Tony Abbott's "direct action" policy on climate change that abandons an emissions trading scheme as a solution will strangle the Australian economy in red tape.

Warning the outcome at Copenhagen was far from certain, the Prime Minister conceded today it would be “tough” to cut a deal on ambitious world targets on climate change.

As he prepared to fly out tonight, Mr Rudd warned the alternative proposed by Mr Abbott was less effective, more expensive and bureaucratic and would not offer low and middle income earners the compensation promised under Labor's emissions trading scheme.

Speaking at the O'Connor Cooperative School in Canberra today where he was presented with a book of letters from preschoolers on the environment, Mr Rudd pledged to fight for a strong agreement at Copenhagen.

“We've seen a lot of erratic policy behaviour from the Liberals over the last week or so,” Mr Rudd said.

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Strangulating the Australian economy is the consequences of abiding by the 'Copenhagen Protocol', the same sense as its predecessor, Kyoto Protocol did.

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[[Abbott’s climate change policy would boost ‘red tape’]]

Whoda thunk it? Red tape created by a massive one world government who can’t even control the natiosn they now control? It’s gonna be nothign but a huge red tape nightmare- and they know it-

Also- somehtign folks aren’t concidering, is that there wil lhave to be massive ‘oversight comittees’ enstated in order to ‘look after the spendign of the funds in other nations’ which of course means that millions upon millions of dolalrs WILL NOT go to third world countries at all, but right into the coffers of these corrupt ‘oversight comittees’- We lal remember how well the ‘food for oil’ program went with the UN- And they want us to trust them with hundreds of billions of dollars more? I don’t htink so

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