"And, don't forget, Ms Gillard admitted she lied about carbon tax on Q&A a few weeks ago. She says she lied and yet you say she didn't?"
She never said she lied when asked about telling what you called a lie , she said she walked away from the committment on the tax due to a change in circumstance eg minority government so she could deliver on the promise of a carbon price. She never uses the word lie.
Here is the transcript from q&a
"CHRIS TRAVERS: Prime Minister, how much of your recent poor polling results do you attribute to your lie on the carbon tax?
JULIA GILLARD: Well, poor polling I'll - questions of polling I'll let other people talk about but I'm actually glad you asked me that question because it gives me an opportunity to explain and I do want to talk to the Australian people about what I said in the last election. Now, I did say during the last election campaign - I promised that there would be no carbon tax. That's true and I've walked away from that commitment and I'm not going to try and pretend anything else. I also said to the Australian people in the last election campaign that we needed to act on climate change. We needed to price carbon and I wanted to see an emissions trading scheme. Then we had the election and the 17 days that were and we formed this minority government. Now, if I'd been leading a majority government I would have been getting on with an emissions trading scheme. It's what I promised the Australian people. As it is, in this minority parliament, the only way I can act on climate change by pricing carbon it to work with others and so I had a really start choice. Do I act or not act? Well, I've chosen to act and we will have a fixed price, like a carbon tax, for a period and then get to exactly what I promised the Australian people, an emissions trading scheme. Now, when I said during the election campaign there would be no carbon tax I didn't intend to mislead people. What I believed then is an emissions trading scheme is right for this country. I believe that now and we will get to that emissions trading scheme."
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3157403.htm
Here is what she said about a price on carbon prior to the election which supports what she said on q&a.
"In an election-eve interview with The Australian, the Prime Minister revealed she would view victory tomorrow as a mandate for a carbon price, provided the community was ready for this step.
"I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism," she said of the next parliament. "I rule out a carbon tax."
This is the strongest message Ms Gillard has sent about action on carbon pricing.
While any carbon price would not be triggered until after the 2013 election, Ms Gillard would have two potential legislative partners next term - the Coalition or the Greens. She would legislate the carbon price next term if sufficient consensus existed."
The coalition could work with Labor and cut the greens out and go straight to a market based mechanism and bypass the direct price if they really cared about keeping the government honest. But we all know they are just wreckers.
As for the non-government ads that show a animated version of a power station what does it matter what the animation is based on , it just there to make the point coal fired power station emit lots of greenhouse gas , that not deceptive its the truth.
