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Australia’s hope for action on Climate Change

The Australian Labor Party used to be inspired by Ben Chifley’s 1949 speech about “THE LIGHT ON THE HILL”.

That light dimmed as decades went by, and things in Australia have been pretty dark – especially for the environment, over recent decades.

Now, perhaps, there’s a glimmer again.  Prime Minister Julia Gillard says that she is not intending to promote those ALP power brokers, (whose goal is self-advancement, and bugger the environment – my words, not Gillard’s).

Julia Gillard will fight for a carbon tax. That’s a start, as all thorough students of global warming come up with a carbon tax as the only practical way to start to address Australia’s problem of its immense per capita greenhouse gas output.

June 28, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews, climate change - global warming | Australia, carbon, climate change - global warming, nuclear costs, renewable