FED: Climate change debate dominates parly=3

AAP General News (Australia)
08-11-2009
FED: Climate change debate dominates parly=3

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Mr Rudd said Tuesday's Liberal party room meeting must have been "a doozie" when talk
turned to emissions trading.

"They are not united by a policy on climate change, they are united in their opposition
to our policy on climate change," the prime minister said, adding there was more discipline
in an average riot than within the coalition ranks.

Greg Combet, the minister assisting Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, says the scheme
floated by the coalition and Frontier Economics isn't credible.

"It is not a credible proposition, it's not transparent, it's fundamentally flawed
and importantly it shifts the risk for achieving Australia's target reductions in emissions
on to households, small businesses and taxpayers," he told parliament.

"Two days out from the vote the coalition's is still looking for a miracle solution."

Environment Minister Peter Garrett took up his leader's magic pudding theme and ran
with it later on in question time.

"We've got the ETS and they've got a MPS - the magic pudding scheme," Mr Garrett said.

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KEYWORD: CLIMATE RUDD 3 CANBERRA (REOPENS)

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