labor's refusal to scrap the carbon tax, page-29

"We voted out Howard, remember? That "we" would include many here you call rabid right wingers."

Firstly,I believe ,I say "unwashed",secondly,if you think little johnny was voted out because of his ETS,"your dreamin".

"the fact is that Tony and the people who put him in his job do not want to do anything about climate change. They do not believe in human caused global warming. As Tony observed on one occasion 'climate change is crap' or if you consider his mentor, Senator Minchin, the world is not warming, it's cooling and the climate change issue is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to deindustrialise the world.

Now politics is about conviction and a commitment to carry out those convictions. The Liberal Party is currently led by people whose conviction on climate change is that it is 'crap' and you don't need to do anything about it. Any policy that is announced will simply be a con, an environmental figleaf to cover a determination to do nothing. After all, as Nick Minchin observed, in his view the majority of the Party Room do not believe in human caused global warming at all. I disagree with that assessment, but many people in the community will be excused for thinking the leadership ballot proved him right.

Remember Nick Minchin's defense of the Howard government's ETS was that the Government was panicked by the polls and therefore didn't really mean it."

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/jul/08/tony-abbott-climate-policy-australia

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