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Originally Posted by Hagar
Not much point in arguing a mandate. But as elected (well nearly) representative the only mandate they have is to govern according to there election stance as promised during there election campaign. They have no right to take any stance outside this be it ethical or not.
I have always been a strong Labour supporter but find this current policy a total breach of trust, at least with what I voted for. Very dissappointed indeed and still very sceptical of the reasoning and result.
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Hmmm? perhaps you weren't listening well enough then Doug, or you were not listening to everything
...the anti Labor media will try and have you believe anything if it is contoversial and sells air time
On August 20th, 2010, The Australian, not exactly the current bastion of left-wing politics, wrote the following in an article titled "Julia Gillard's carbon price promise" and subtitled "Julia Gillard says she is prepared to legislate a carbon price in the next term" -
"In an election-eve interview with The Australian, the Prime Minister revealed she would view victory tomorrow as a mandate for a carbon price, provided the community was ready for this step."
"I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism," she said of the next parliament. "I rule out a carbon tax."
This is the strongest message Ms Gillard has sent about action on carbon pricing.
While any carbon price would not be triggered until after the 2013 election, Ms Gillard would have two potential legislative partners next term - the Coalition or the Greens. She would legislate the carbon price next term if sufficient consensus existed.
Full article here -
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillards-carbon-price-promise/story-fn59niix-1225907522983
So... she certainly announced that the election was a mandate to legislate a market based carbon price and as we know the market-based ETS plan that they wanted would come into play in three years.
Apart from a few sematics on the actual words used nobody could say that this was not a direct admission that there would certainly be action on climate change and a price put on carbon ...so all those Ju
liar bumper sticker sporters, Adrew Bolt desiples and vitriolic
crapback radio listeners actually have it a little skewed...for their own purposes of course
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Re the concrete, I would make for non typical Greeny reo bar
Cheers
Mike