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2010-08-26

Illusion, delusion or what?

Comments on Miranda Devine “Loose lips among the tulips”, 26/08/2010, http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/loose-lips-among-the-tulips-20100825-13s5v.html?autostart=1
It appears that at least one of your arguments is a delusion. You said:
"Delusion 7: We have to have an emissions trading scheme or price on carbon. The fact the government barely mentioned climate change in this election says a lot about the attitude of most voters to higher energy prices, lost jobs and slower growth, the price of a policy which would do next to nothing to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions."

Had Gillard had a credible, effective and convincing climate change policy, she should have won the election without too much difficulty!

For example, she could have proposed to have a moderate carbon price and distributing the proceeds to the voters/residents on a fair basis! That would have been seen as decisive, creative and visionary! (Then her citizens' assembly could have been used to discuss the distributing mechanisms and the levels of the carbon tax and its future direction; and the public wouldn't have been so cynical about her silly idea of that.)

Instead, Gillard has lost the unlosable election, unfortunately for her due to ALP's strategic errors and her lack of true leadership at the most critical time.

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