Labor set to bury carbon tax

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[Allan]

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I find it difficult to come to grips with the mentality that says if we pay lots of money to the United Nations then they will be able to control the climate. Is there really anyone with a brain that believes that??

The Fairfax Press, intent on continuing the myth, today has an article entitled, "Labor Set To Bury Carbon Tax."

Accompanying the Fairfax article is a very dramatic photograph depicting poor suffering sheep in the foreground in front of a power station belching out STEAM, you know, water vapour, from its cooling towers into a dark and threatening sky.

The carbon pollution from coal fired power stations message that this photograph is intended to convey has been very cleverly prepared. It is also very dishonest.

[dB]

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Is there really anyone with a brain that believes that??

Not that I'm aware of. Who is proposing we pay lots of money to the UN?

[Allan]

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"The Gillard Government is party to a UN agreement which Climate Change Minister Greg Combet entered into in December at a meeting in Cancun, Mexico, under which about 10 per cent of carbon taxes in developed nations will go into a Green Climate Fund."

"Even when Ms Gillard was denying there would be a carbon tax last August, her government had committed to spend $599 million on climate change handouts over the current three-year Budget period, mainly in the Pacific and South-East Asia. About $470 million has already been allocated."

Seems to me that the United Nations has a big hand in this blatant redistribution of wealth.

[dB]

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Hunt's onto it....

"We will consider issues carefully and will not rush to make premature judgments," said Greg Hunt, the new Environment Minister, referring to Australia's support for the fund.

[Jim Witt]

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It will be interesting to see how Labor plays this. They should be smart enough to see that the last 2 elections were won by candidates indicating opposition to a Carbon Tax and know that the general electorate is against it, but they are an obstinate mob of self righteous socialist dills, so they just might continue to oppose the abolition of it.

[Aussieute]

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Good take on Bolt about the waste ... http://bit.ly/17u6hsM

[John of North Lakes]

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Labor are on a hiding to nothing with this. Their first & most difficult task is to acknowledge both to the electorate & perhaps more importantly to themselves that they lost the election. Best to do it like a bandaid I reckon, just "rip it off". Shorten would wear the odium of his party members for this but it would be in the long term interest of the party & as for Bill, who cares, it is most unlikely that the next Labor PM is not yet in Parliament. He could do a great service to his party by doing the dirty work now.
I am not yet convinced of the merits of direct action as a policy but the LNP won a convincing mandate on this & they deserve the opportunity to implement their policies. I cannot see any virtue in Labor blocking that mandate. Ultimately the electorate will make a judgment on direct action & I think Labor will be judged harshly if they do not move on from the CT.