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Two years after coming effect, Australia kills carbon tax

2014-07-17 22:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: In a significant victory for Prime Minister Tony Abbott, the Australian Senate has voted to repeal the country's two-year-old carbon tax. Abbott made dismantling the tax one of the cornerstones of his campaign last September even as Australia remains one of the highest carbon emitters per capita in the industrialized world. After the vote, Abbott called the dismantled legislation "a useless, destructive tax, which damaged jobs, which hurt families' cost of living and which didnt actually help...

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