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Australia’s carbon tax – theme for this week

Just seven days to go, and we wonder what kind of stunt Tony Abbott will try to pull, to stop it before it’s too late.  Has Australia ever before witnessed an opposition leader who will go to any lengths to destroy a Prime Minister?   Regardless of the damage done to Australia’s economy, Tony Abbott has obsessively and relentlessly aimed for a double dissolution of Parliament.

And why?   Does Abbott really care whether there’s  a carbon tax or not?   Abbott just wants to be TOP – it’s as simple as that.   With the funding and backing of the pollutng industries, and their mouthpieces, such as the Institute of Public Affairs, and the Murdoch media –   Tony Abbott thought that the way to the TOP would be by riding along on the anti carbon tax campaign.

Tony, setting his sights on a double dissolution which would usher in his cancellation of the carbon tax, just didn’t factor in the possibility that, despite every dirty tactic in the book, and not in the book, the double dissolution has not happened.  Yet, anyway –  perhaps Abbott thinks he can still pull it off within this week?

The interesting part will be the repercussions after the tax comes in.  When Liberal Prime Minister John Howard brought in the Goods and Services Tax (GST)  – his opponents predicted doom.  But – doom just didn’t happen.

Tony Abbott’s predictions of Armageddon following the carbon tax  might just end up looking silly. Christina Macpherson

June 23, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews