Sydney Morning Herald: Tony Abbott`s plan to axe the carbon price this week has come in for some withering criticism from his own side of politics, with a former head of the UK`s Conservative Party declaring it to be an "appalling" move that "recklessly" endangers the future.
Lord Deben, who served in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher`s cabinet and is now chairman of the independent UK Committee on Climate Change, said the Abbott government "appears to be more concerned with advancing its own short-term political interests"...