You cannot win an election without a fight
If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.
There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.
I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.
Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.