Australia's ruling Labor Party in the next election could collapse largely a qualified success in the last three years ago consequences. In order to form a coalition , she needs to stay in power , then Prime Minister Julia Gillard breach of promise and agree to the major polluters of the carbon tax .
On Saturday, the bill due to bargain. Voters never stopped hate taxes and tariffs on them . Long-term Labor supporters - even if people install solar panels at home to help reduce pollution - have flocked to the opposition.
Keane, "said Mark , 54 -year-old maintenance worker from Sydney , the first time in his life , will not vote for labor :" Who got rid of it would get my vote .
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott (Tony Abbott) announced the election " a referendum " carbon tax " - a sure sign of the confidence of the majority of voters , continue to firmly oppose it .
Gillard has been the downfall of its unpopularity , who lost her job , Kevin Rudd in June despair Party MPs vote to avoid crushing election loss , you can send them to a decade of political wilderness. But the Labour Party parliamentary candidate continues to lag behind in the polls seriously .
Since July 2012 , has been in the big polluters , such as power plants and factories taxes. It began to produce $ 23 per tonne of carbon dioxide ( $ 21 ) , has risen to U.S. $ per tonne AU24.15 .
The Government estimates that the tax cost is less than $ 10 per person per week , but three months after the entry into force , the majority of Australians surveyed said that policy think tank per capita , which is more than twice the cost , and more . But they also expressed confusion, most blamed gas prices higher taxes , even if it does not impose automobile fuel purchases . 1,422 people voting is a representative online survey has a margin of error of 2.6% .
Chester, energy researcher at the University of Sydney , Lynn said , in Australia 's most populous state , New South Wales , household electricity prices rose more than 110 percent, from July 2007 to June 2013 . But she said that only about 9 percent, an increase is due to the carbon tax , transmission and distribution accounted for the remaining costs.
Most Australians , but not wealthy , receive government compensation for higher electricity prices .
Carbon tax is one of the reasons Sydney resident Jeff Hamment, usually vote for the Labour Party , to support the conservatives this time around . Hamment said he saw his family electricity "through the roof " because the tax.
"I do not like it, " he said. "I think we pay so much when you have countries like China churn out , just does not make sense ."
Hamment spend AU $ 8,000 to install solar panels and a gas water heater , and trained his two children off the lights as possible . Several of his retired friend , who is a worse survival pension is , and has been trying to cope with higher costs.
"They're sitting at home in the cold , because they are afraid of electricity, " he said.
In this 23 million coal resource-rich countries politicians have been seeking to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration , Australia in 2010 produced approximately 19.7 metric tons of carbon dioxide per person , per capita than the United States , and almost any other country.
Labor and Union are committed , Australia's greenhouse gas emissions reduction of 5% in 2020 , below the 2000 level. But now , whether you want to accomplish something other than a carbon tax .
Gillard is not the first attempt to deal with the issue politician undone .
During the campaign for the 2007 general election , Rudd won his first stint former Prime Minister , both labor and alliances have been proposed in many European countries use similar carbon emissions trading scheme . Major polluters to buy and sell credits on the open market to get the right to produce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull has been close to deal with labor trading scheme in 2009 , the Abbott questioned him for the party leadership , and won a vote. Replacing Kevin Rudd Labor ETS hopes in tatters and his popularity in free fall , he and his deputy, Gillard , 2010 .
After a few weeks , Gillard 's election promise to seek Australia will be how to deal with their greenhouse gas emissions to reach a consensus . Fate , she promised not to introduce a carbon tax .
She returned to her words , because the Labour Party needs the support from the minor Greens have enough seats in parliament to control the government and the Greens insist taxes.
Broken promises , triggering protest rallies across the country and deadly destruction Gillard government in the polls . The battle between her and the Rudd constantly feed their party more awakening.
" Agnes said:" The Labour government is all about yourself - personal - and not the entire party , Lee , who plans to vote for a Conservative Union last Saturday in Sydney IT consultant . "They do not have to work together in harmony or unity , because they are trying to backstab each other, I do not want to have an image of the ruling government ."
Lee has installed solar panels to reduce her electricity bill , a longtime supporter of the Liberal Party , said Labor's carbon tax can not explain the major shortcomings of the party . She agreed with the government to curb carbon emissions , the need to do something , but she does not know the carbon tax is resolved.
"At this stage , I do not think anyone has a clear understanding of the government to do is with the carbon tax, " Lee said. "This is a real tax, which is a real carbon emissions trading scheme do ? "
Rudd hopes in 2014 - one year ahead of the current schedule of carbon emissions trading scheme . He said that this will reduce the cost of one tonne of CO2 emissions from 25.40 Australian dollars, estimated A $ 6.
Abbott hopes is neither a carbon tax or carbon trading , but the taxpayer-funded incentives polluters operation clean. He said this is a direct action plan, but labor and environmental groups called for a "con", unable to reach their emission reduction targets.
Abbott has been committed to direct action to AU $ 3.2 billion spending cap , even failed to reach the target . He also revealed that the opposition is not modeling shows that the success of the program .
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