Before the election, Tony Abbott spoke of turning Australia into the «food bowl of Asia» and
blamed the plight of Australia's manufacturing industry primarily
on the Labor government's
carbon tax.
However, Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister for climate and energy, told the Associated Press the most workable solution would be global limits
on the pollution
blamed for global warming, rather than an outright
tax on carbon dioxide and other major industrial warming gases.