Poor old Abbott has just been the recipient of a hefty left hook.

http://watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/rudd-dumps-carbon-tax-leaves-abbott-punch-drunk-media-round-up-1/

"Abbott is of course worried. As Rudd has just knocked out what was the core of his message these past three years.

“Great Big Emissions Trading Scheme” is a less effective slogan. And it’s more than three words.

“Axe-the-Great-Big-Emissions-Trading-Scheme!”

Hmmmm, not quite as catchy as “Axe-the-tax!”."

A little more info on floating the carbon price one year early:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/14/floating-carbon-price-labor-coalition?CMP=twt_gu

"Starting a "floating" carbon price one year early is not such a big deal, really. The fact that every political party is screaming about it just proves how twisted the politics of this issue has become.

For Kevin Rudd, it's a way to reboot a debate Labor has been comprehensively losing, and provide businesses and households with some very short term cost relief......

......But it's a price reduction that would have happened when the system moved into line with international prices one year later anyway. The real impact Labor is hoping for is political."

Belly, Poirot, your posts totally confirm what we have seen of Labor these past 5+ years. How any of you have the gall to mention policy I just don't know.

With this acceptance of Rudd's new crap you have shown that after years of ranting about global warming, it doesn't matter a damn, if there is an election to be won.

If you can accept this bit of garbage you are telling us that all your tears about global warming were just crocodile tears, produced when required by your illustrious leader, who ever that may be, or how disgusting they may be.

I doubt the Oz people are quite dumb enough to vote for this opportunistic bit of garbage when the time comes, but it will tell us if the education system has won the race to develop a people fit for a "1984" world.

So, Hasbeen, please explain the great advantage to Labor or the country of not shifting to an ETS a year earlier than planned and enunciated.

You think AGW is cr*p anyway, but I'd still like to hear you reasoning given you probably received the same education I did (except for the science part, obviously).

More porkies - or ineptitude - from the Coalition.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/coalitions-15b-carbon-price-claim-mostly-false-20130714-2py81.html

Dear Hasbeen,

As Laurie Oakes jokingly remarked
about Tony Abbott:

"He's got more positions than the
Karma Sutra."

Mr Abbott prefers clear, simple, answers
to complex problems.

The following link explains why:

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/the-polishing-of-tony-abbott-two/

There's an interesting chapter under carbon pricing.