Australia gets Tea Party style anti carbon tax movement
The ABC’s Hungry Beast featured him as one arm of a very corrupt and conspiratorial octopus, in a report on US
billionaires David and Charles Koch earlier this year.
But Andrews’ latest project, Stop Gillard’s Carbon Tax, is his most successful yet
Meet the man behind the anti-carbon tax lobby, RACHEL HILLS, 17TH SEPTEMBER 2011 The Spectator The New York Times dubbed it a ‘tempest with echoes of a tea party.’ Julia Gillard has called it the ‘Americanisation’ of Australian politics. Others say it’s just the latest iteration of the city-rural divide that saw the rise of One Nation in the 1990s, and the ‘Joh for Canberra’ revolt that thwarted John Howard’s ambitions in the 1980s.
For Tim Andrews, one of the masterminds behind the anti-carbon tax protests that have Labor’s hold on government on tenterhooks, it’s the start of something bigger: the rise of an activist centre-right with the potential to revolutionise Australian politics the same way the Tea Party has in the United States.
A former president of the Australian Liberal Students’ Federation and editor of the conservative opinion website Menzies House, Andrews, 28, is no stranger to media attention – or to attention-grabbing activism….
The ABC’s Hungry Beast featured him as one arm of a very corrupt and conspiratorial octopus, in a report on US billionaires David and Charles Koch earlier this year.
But Andrews’ latest project, Stop Gillard’s Carbon Tax, is his most successful yet. Part blog, part mailing list, part campaigning engine, the website is key cog in a network of conservative activist groups that have emerged in response to the government’s increasingly unpopular carbon tax…..
http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/7243323/meet-the-man-behind-the-anticarbon-tax-lobby.thtml
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