Carbon tax in action
There’s a surprise – not. Finally climate crawls back onto the electoral agenda again, as Joolya reveals her desire for an ETS or carbon tax:
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has left open the door for a future carbon price or emissions trading scheme.
Emissions would be abated through policies Labor already had announced, for renewable energy, greener buildings and cars, Ms Gillard told the National Press Club on Thursday.
She said Australians frustrated that Labor had not achieved an emissions trading scheme in its first term should give the government another chance.
“People are making a decision whether they will have a prime minister who believes in climate change, who is committed to leading a national debate to get a carbon pollution reduction scheme and the market mechanism we need to price carbon, whilst delivering on the policies I’ve outlined,” she said. (source)
So all this horseshit about a citizens assembly is a smokescreen, as we knew all along. Joolya and Labor want an ETS or a carbon tax, and with the Greens twisting their arms in the Senate, we will surely get one.
Summary: A vote for Labor is a vote for a carbon tax.
Australian Climate Madness 
The “community consensus for action” move was always to convince the community that action is needed; it was never to gauge whether the community actually wanted any,
“A vote for Labor is a vote for a carbon tax.”
So is a vote for the Greens.. Libs, maybe..
Joolya said; “People are making a decision whether they will have a prime minister who believes in climate change, who is committed to leading a national debate to get a carbon pollution reduction scheme and the market mechanism we need to price carbon, whilst delivering on the policies I’ve outlined,” she said.
How are we going to convince these people that “carbon” is not a pollutant!
How can human beings be so stupid to elect governments who tax them on; Clean green CO2 [colourless, tasteless, odourless, clear] CO2 – the building blocks of life on earth, plant food.
Does anyone know where the money from a carbon tax will go? I wouldn’t mind an evironment tax if it were to go to a fund run by genuine Aussies with no hidden agenda. The fund could help save real environmental issues. This carbon tax from what I can see will be run by an international (unelected) body and not one cent appears to be allocated for proven environmental problems. The agenda as stated is to give money from the wealthy countries to this international body who will then hand it out to their corporate mates on the pretext of improving the lot in developing countries. This scam is nothing new (look at Greg Palast’s interview with Joseph Stiglitz).