Dec 19: "No Carbon Tax Under the Goverment that I Lead"
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It was a very clear statement; but calling it "a lie" (as so many do) is a gross over-simplification of the complex events which actually occurred. So why do we now have a Carbon Tax?
The facts are:
Tony Abbott:
Supported a Carbon Tax and asked "Why not ask electricity consumers to pay more?:
Earlier both Abbott and Gillard had supported a Carbon Tax. Then, like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, both changed their minds and rejected it; but regardless of their support or denial for a Carbon Tax, decisions of the utmost importance to the nation are decided by the 'Numbers Game'. The Independents won, not Julia Gillard. It is their tax, more than it is hers.
It is quite clear that if the Coalition parties had successfully negotiated a deal with the independent MPs, Windor and Oakeshott, to form an Abbott Government in September 2010, instead of a Gillard Government, Australia would still have a Carbon Tax (or an Emission Trading Scheme) in place. It would have been Tony Abbott and the Coalition Government supporting it; and it would have been an Opposition Labour Party (possibly led by Julia Gillard) attacking it and accusing Abbott of reneging on his election promise!
The vagaries of politics!
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