Sentences with phrase «coalition on carbon taxes»

«unless «conservatives» are willing to sell out, there's no point in forming a left - right coalition on carbon taxes.»

Again, unless «conservatives» are willing to sell out, there's no point in forming a left - right coalition on carbon taxes.

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He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old tax on carbon dioxide emissions — the country's only legislated policy for reducing global warming pollution.

The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that a carbon tax was the next likely battle in the long war on carbon.

In 2013, Coalition opposition leader Tony Abbott declared that the forthcoming election would be a «referendum on the carbon tax», and in those terms he scored a resounding victory.

Coalition leader Tony Abbott said this week: «If the Coalition wins the election on Saturday, the carbon tax will go.

Xenophon, a sitting senator who was re-elected on Saturday, told Guardian Australia he would not vote for the abolition of the carbon tax until the Coalition's alternative Direct Action plan had been changed to ensure it could meet Australia's emission reduction targets.

AUSTRALIANS have turned on the carbon tax, with almost two - thirds of people opposed to pricing greenhouse gas emissions and an overwhelming majority backing Coalition plans to unravel the policy.

The Guardian's Lenore Taylor has pointed out that while the Coalition is bringing back the «carbon tax» scare campaign of 2013, its own scheme would have to draw on the «safeguard mechanism» component of Direct Action — which is itself a disguised ETS — to have any chance of meeting the targets.