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| Subject: Luddite OZschwitz Senate frustrates bid to scrap carbon tax Mon Mar 03, 2014 3:34 am | |
| The first of the Abbott government's bills to scrap the carbon tax has been rejected by parliament as the Senate continues what the coalition argues is an "industrial go slow".
Labor and the Australian Greens on Monday used their combined numbers in the upper house to knock back a bill to dismantle the independent Climate Change Authority.
The move has frustrated the government, which has been pressuring the Senate for months to get out of the way and pass its package of bills to unwind the Gillard government's carbon tax laws.
But the Senate hasn't made it easy for the government to push ahead with its plans.
The package of repeal bills passed the lower house in November, but has bogged down in Senate debate ever since.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/21792412/bill-to-scrap-climate-authority-fails/ |
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