PM wins backing for carbon tax

WITH the biggest policy gamble of her career a week away from starting, Julia Gillard has been buoyed by international support for the carbon tax package.

And the Prime Minister hit back at critics, saying it was the right policy for creating a clean energy future.
As the United Nations Rio+20 sustainable development conference she is attending in Brazil wraps up, Ms Gillard has taken heart from South Korea and Colombia announcing plans to put a price on carbon.

Ms Gillard said it contradicted Tony Abbott's claim the carbon tax would be "an international orphan".
The PM claimed 850 million people would be covered by schemes similar to the carbon tax.
"Carbon pricing is very frequent subject of discussions when I meet leaders from other countries," she said.
"I spoke to the President of Colombia today, who has announced his intention to put a price on carbon.
"With the President of South Korea, I have discussed with him our carbon pricing scheme.
"He is moving to an emissions trading scheme.
"We are joining 850 million other people who are covered by carbon pricing schemes and we know that other nations are moving towards such schemes."
Ms Gillard said it would increasingly change Australia's mix towards renewable energy.
"I know this is the right policy for our nation," she said.
"I know it's right for us to seize a clean energy future, and we will do that in a way which will see our nation making more use of solar and renewable resources and clean energy, and we will do that in a way which protects Australians who need our assistance."
The Opposition says the biggest polluting countries are not introducing a carbon tax.
The Government says California, one of the world's largest economies, will.
Mr Abbott said the carbon tax was the last thing Australia needed when the global economy was fragile.

news.com.au 23 Jun 2012

The PM certainly did not win any votes for the Carbon (Dioxide) Tax from the masses that is for sure.

Prior to the election of  Julia Gillard as Prime Minister (Australia's first female lesbian PM), the conditions stipulated by her were that there was to be no introduction of any Carbon (Dioxide) Tax.

Another lie from the (Trailer Park Trash, uneducated) gob of a Prime Minister.

Australia has a population of approx just over 20 million or approximately 0.28% of the world's population.

If anyone seriously believes that the carbon scam scheme will have a positive effect on lowering the globes temperature is kidding themselves.

There is no evidence that shows that Australia's contribution to lower Carbon Dioxide emissions will lower the Earths temperatures.

Australia's east coast is experiencing some of the wettest and coldest weather to date.

Another Money for Mates scam in the hands of a fraudulent government.