Comment on ‘Why the hell did we ever drop it?’: Labor should push for new carbon tax, ex-Treasury head says
dellish@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You dropped it because you were in minority government and Abbott was racking you over the coals talking about a “big new tax”. If I remember, what’s his excuse?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
The truth is they didn’t drop it, because a carbon tax was never a Labor policy. Both Rudd and Gillard presented emissions trading schemes to Parliament. The difference was in the details of those ETSes, with Rudd’s being estimated by his own treasury modelling to not result in any decrease in emissions until 2035. That’s why the Greens pushed back and later worked with Gillard to pass a much better ETS that actually showed a decrease from day one.