If Rudd gets back in the greens love the idea of the new tax so...

If Rudd gets back in the greens love the idea of the new tax so its going straight through the senate. This is from Q and A last night

CHRISTINE MILNE: Well, its what the Greens have promoted and been arguing for for some time. Weve been drawing attention to the fact that Norway did it with its vast profits from oil, recognising it needed to get away from an oil based, fossil fuel based economy and it has banked that money for the future, and thats what weve been advocating. So we are very keen to see that happen, and well look forward to the support of the unions when we move for that in the senate, because


CHRISTINE MILNE: Well, certainly, its true that a lot of the wealth from mining has never been returned to those mining communities. In fact, it goes offshore, a lot of it, and that is why this is a good idea to actually bring some of that money into the Australian economy. But just letting it go into general budget measures is not what we should be doing. We really should use this opportunity to build for the future, invest in education, and the transformation to the low carbon economy. Its a one off opportunity and we need to take it