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Carbon pricing will return – says Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard predicts return of carbon pricing and mining tax, saying ‘good reforms take more than one go’, ABC News  By political reporter Andrew Greene 11 Nov 2014, Former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard has predicted Australia’s carbon pricing and mining tax will eventually return.

Ms Gillard, who was deposed as prime minister last year, said she believes many of her government’s policies, which have now been abolished by the Coalition, will one day be reintroduced.

In a wide-ranging interview with ABC Radio in Canberra, Ms Gillard compared her government’s mining and carbon taxes with Gough Whitlam’s introduction of Medibank (now Medicare) in the 1970s.

“Medibank completely contested by the conservative side of politics (with) the Liberal Party saying it’ll destroy Australia as we know it and no one will ever go and be a doctor again and Bob Hawke needing to bring it back,” she said.

“The Government is finding it very, very hard to try and sweep away our education reforms which are enduring in many respects.

“Yes, they’ve swept away carbon pricing and the Minerals Resource Rent Tax, but good reforms often take more than one go around and they’ll be back.”…….http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-11/julia-gillard-predicts-return-carbon-pricing-mining-tax/5883120

November 12, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News