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Carbon tax looking like the best Climate Change plan for Australian govt

Anxious Labor MPs push carbon tax * Patricia Karvelas, Dennis Shanahan : The Australian * May 05, 2010 WORRIED Labor MPs plan to ask Kevin Rudd to embrace a carbon tax as Labor’s climate change policy, to fill the vacuum left by his contentious shelving of the emissions trading scheme.After being bombarded by outraged younger voters in their electorates, five Labor MPs have told The Australian the government’s current position on climate change is untenable and unsellable to the electorate.The admissions come as ministers concede the Rudd government failed to explain, or properly promote, its carbon pollution reduction scheme.

Anxious Labor MPs push carbon tax | The Australian

May 5, 2010 - Posted by | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming, energy | , , , ,

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