Posted on 03/08/2011 6:38:10 AM PST by TonyfromOz
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard is on a Sate Visit to the U.S. and she spent 40 minutes in private with the President at the White House, and then appeared for the usual media call video at the end of the talks. In a way. it's lucky the visit was planned for right now, because at home both Prime Minister Gillard and her Government have the lowest popularity polls in many years, thanks to her announcement that she is seeking to impose a 'Price on Carbon', even after promising in the recent election campaign that she would not be doing this in her first term if she was re-elected. This might just have been her only chance to be seen on the bigger stage with President Obama.
Sate Visit? ;)
"Together we can destroy capitalism..."
Tony, I try to follow Australian events because I want to move some money there. Will a carbon tax really be imposed? Isn’t Gilibrand caught in a lie now?
Sorry, Gillard, shows you how important she is to me.
Why she is proposing this now is that she hopes against hope that it can actually be forced through into legislation with the aid of The Australian Greens Party in the Senate, who are in fact the main drivers of this legislation. The hope is she can force it through now, even though it is roundly detested by everyone, and then the hope is that come the next election in three years time, the people will have gotten used to it and forgotten it. Fat chance. especially when it’s going to drive up the cost of electricity by so much.
This announcement has been poison, both for her as leader, and for her Government, and the polls have them in free fall at the moment.
It’s going to be touch and go if it does get up.
Can she do that?
I thought I read somewhere she is the first head of state of any “Western” government who is openly atheist.
Am I right?
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