abbott elected on basis of a great big lie ?, page-16

tinnitus - deal with the fact that it was a massive tax accompanied by massive subsidies accompanied by virtually no other countries - let's not sweat the detailed impact line by line - it was a toxic tax that the people rejected.

I loved Howard's comment about his flirtation with the ETS in 2007 - "It was a political decision" (or similar)

Most of us knew that.