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A Carbon Tax That Can Rise From Australia's Ashes
2014-07-20 07:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: As the post-mortems arrive to determine the cause of death for Australia's carbon tax, a couple of questions emerge: Why did this happen? What lessons can we learn? The answer to the first question is fairly simple: A politician - Julia Gillard - promised she wouldn't tax carbon, and then she broke that promise. This happened because her Labor Party needed to form a coalition government with the Green Party. The price the Greens demanded for that alliance was a carbon tax, and so she acquiesced....
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