Friday, July 23, 2010
Hustings
Saturday morning will be in Subiaco, starting at the Farmers market, from 10 am, talking to anyone about greens and other political issues. Time to the electorate how relevant the greens really are.
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You need to explain to people why the greens sank the ETS twice? now we wont have anything for another 2 years and if Abbott wins certainly noda for much longer. You lot are worst than the Libs, at least they oppose it because they are with big business.. what about the greens? you sank ETS to prove a political point that Greens have arrived!
Just to recap the history; the labor government went to the last election with a clear policy to act on climate change and got a mandate to do just that.
The CPRS, derived from Ross Garnault's report was proposed as the mechanism to achieve this.
The labor government could not pass this in the senate with or without Greens and Nick Xenophon support as Fielding needed to support it too, which he didn't.
The government sought negotiation with the Coalition under Turnbull and refused to negatiate or invlolve the Greens at all.
The original legislation was modified significantly as a result of these discussions, resulting in a scheme that would:
a) pay polluters to carry on polluting,at taxpayers expense,
b) impose a cap as well as a floor, ie there is no mechanism or incentive to go beyind the desired reductions,
c) exclude individuals and communities from contributing
d) lock us into legislation aiming at a 5% reduction on 1990 levels we would be complex and costly to change.
Do you agree far ?
We need to be aiming much higher ( closer to 40% by 2020 ) and this legislation not only fails to do this, but makes this target impossible.
The costs would be borne not by the polluting industries but by the taxpayer.
In other words the modified CPRS legislation fails at several levels.
It is rather cute, as an argument, to then point the finger at the greens, who very briefly had the opportunity to pass this when 2 liberal senators crossed the floor, to lay the blame with them for this travesty.
The Greens, supported by Ross Garnault want an interim carbon tax, this could have been done at any time by Labor. But it wasn't. That is the real failing and who you should be pointing your finger at.
Ian Dunlop cavers this well on his "Unleashed" article today http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2969273.htm
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