| Bill Shorten was due to recommit to an emissions trading scheme in his first speech to Labor’s national conference as party leader, vowing not to succumb to “ridiculous scare campaigns” by Tony Abbott’s “society of flat earthers”. The Labor leader intended to stare down the prime minister’s warnings about a return to the Gillard government’s carbon tax by declaring emphatically that “an ETS is not a tax” and Australia must not be a laggard on climate policy.
Shorten was also signalling that he would resist pressure from the Murdoch press – which has already begun campaigning against a return to carbon pricing – and pragmatic elements within his own party which question the political wisdom of re-embracing the policy...............................................Full Article: Source |