Comments on: Abbott Attempts to Brand Emissions Trading

By: Campaigners to Make Climate a Key Issue in Last Days of Election « TheRealEwbank

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:09:35 +0000

[...] but rule out carbon-pricing measures. Opposition leader Tony Abbott has branded carbon pricing ‘a great big tax’ and has proposed direct action measures as an alternative approach. A Coalition government would [...]

By: Australia Campaigners to Make Climate a Key Issue in Last Days of Election « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:32:22 +0000

By: Labor Must Start Nation Building « Breakthrough Generation

Labor Must Start Nation Building « Breakthrough Generation — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:00:58 +0000

[...] will have a tougher time arguing against this type of policy. While he has successfully demonised emissions trading, branding it a “great big tax”, he hasn’t been able to do the same with Labor’s current [...]

By: “Cap-and-Trade is Dead” in the US: Implications for Australian Climate Policy « Breakthrough Generation

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:34:29 +0000

[...] gives the minor party a much needed boost heading into the election and inadvertently bolsters the Coalition’s claim that carbon pricing is taxation by another name. In any case, the Government would still need two [...]

By: Carbon trading in trouble « Political Climate

Carbon trading in trouble « Political Climate — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:04:17 +0000

[...] of the Rudd government became the focus for the rise of new opposition leader Tony Abbott, who is tying to harness anti-tax sentiment to fight the scheme (already facing stiff resistance from the coal industry and other vested [...]