01.07.2013 - Australia: Carbon plan a wedge for Greens, coalition
Kevin Rudd is going back to the future, with a carbon-trading plan that promises to slash costs for business and wedges the Australian Greens and Coalition to higher-cost positions on either side of Labor. A deal to scrap the carbon tax and quickly link Australia to the much lower international carbon price represents a rerun of negotiations in the Prime Minister's first term that exposed the Greens as a protest party unable to compromise, and claimed the scalp of former Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull........................................Full Article: Source
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