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Nuttsie, a price on carbon is the cheapest and most effective way to achieve the aims you mention. Any economist will tell you that. Turning a blind eye to what the experts are saying will not help anyone. I agree it has to be a global price on carbon. The way I see it the EU and other countries like NZ have started the process. The rest of us need to join in. Anyone not involved should be excluded from the carbon zone and suffer the economic consequences until they join in. Seems like a fair system to me. We all have to pull our weight.

Abbott's Green army idea is too little too late and is like trying to fight a raging bush fire by peeing on it. Plus free-marketeers hate to pick winners but this what Abbott's direct action is all about. A very expensive and wasteful way to achieve the aims. He doesn't believe in climate change and furthermore he is offering up a lame solution that will not achieve the objective and will be inefficient and wasteful and end up costing all of us a lot more. It is just expensive lip service!

Unfortunately your views seem to me to be influenced by a knee-jerk, reactionary right wing media that really does not know what it is talking about. Andrew Bolt, Piers Akerman, Miranda Devine... poor excuses for journalists who are grossly uninformed. It is a very sad state of affairs, but then again, we get the media we deserve, don't we? And the politicians.