Quote:The only problem is backlash from the public. Abbott didnt seem to get any backlash over not voting for a mandate. Will labor. We will see. but I am pretty sure they will, only if they lose the next election by a landslide.
Parties get backlashes for not doing what the people want. Not for missing some kind of mandate. People seem to forget this. No-one who wants a carbon tax is going to vote against it because they feel sorry for the whingers. The whole mandate thing was another pointless longy windup, nothing more. Why would someone carry on like that about a mandate for repealing the tax when it has a short sunset clause already?
Quote:Irrespective of who has power in the senate Skip,or the mandate to govern...despite nut-case Bob Browns promise to ensure a Carbon Tax prevails long after Labor loses the 2013 election .... IT's FINISHED!
Johnny, I think the temporary carbon tax was actually Greens policy. It is already written into law that it will change to an ETS in 2015-2016. It makes Abbott look like a bit of a goose promising to get rid of it when all he has to do to achieve that promise is sit back and wait.
Quote:I doubt even an ETS will be implemented
It already has. The legislative framework for the tax is actually that of an ETS, with a temporary fixed price plastered on.
Quote:Since the condemning files containing CRU researchers emails were released by Wikileaks, Liberal have not expressed their intention to Tax a nation base on bogus science.
Except that Abbott has backflipped from science denier to the mainstream position.