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Carbon tax: Most want it gone, but hate alternate

Tony Abbott's efforts to repeal Labor's carbon tax have the backing of voters, with a poll showing 57 per cent of people want it gone now.

But in a blow to his plans, more people like the supposedly ''toxic'' carbon tax than his proposed replacement policy.

Just 12 per cent of voters believe Mr Abbott's ''direct action'' policy of using taxpayer funds to buy emissions reductions from polluters, and planting trees, is the answer.

That amounts to a virtual vote of no-confidence in direct action, support for which is 4 percentage points lower than the 16 per cent for keeping a fixed carbon price.

Fully 29 per cent nominate an ETS as the preferred mechanism to combat global warming, well ahead of ''some other policy'' on 24 per cent and 11 per cent for ''no policy at all''.

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