Gillard’s Labor Loses Support After Australia Carbon Tax Enacted

You can bet other governments are noticing: “Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s administration saw public support fall as it implemented taxes on carbon output and mining that stirred opposition from business leaders.

The Labor party was favored by 28 percent in a Newspoll survey published in the Australian newspaper today, down 3 percentage points from two weeks ago, compared with 46 percent for the Liberal-National coalition. Taking second-preference votes into account, Labor was 12 points behind the opposition.

Bloomberg

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One Response to Gillard’s Labor Loses Support After Australia Carbon Tax Enacted

  1. The fatal flaw behind all Utopian Ideals is that real, live human beings did not evolve in Utopia, and so are not well-suited to living there.
    Instead they will inevitably alter Utopia to suit their REAL needs and desires, because changing the environment is something human DID evolve to do.

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