Australia opposition vote deals climate law blow
Tony Abbott was chosen to replace Malcolm Turnbull at a Canberra meeting.
Mr Turnbull had backed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme (ETS), but Mr Abbott opposes it.
At least Rudd admits it’s a scheme.
Minutes after his victory, Mr Abbott told a news conference that he would fight the ETS bill.
“We will seek to refer the legislation to [a Senate] committee for further scrutiny. If we cannot get the support for that course of action we will oppose the legislation in the Senate this week,” he said.
“I think on something of this magnitude, it is much more important to get it right than to rush it,” he added.
Emphasis added. Pity US politicians don’t believe that. They appear to believe that they have to do something even if it’s the exact opposite of what they should be doing.
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In Asia as well as Australia “Scheme” (could be a Commonwealth Britishism?) is merely another word for “Plan”.
Imagine my surprise, when I first came out here, when in the course of working within a notoriously corrupt judicial system of a local country the debt restructuring proposal heavily favoring the local debtor over the foreign creditors was presented as the “Debt Restructuring Scheme”! As an American I thought to myself, “so it is a ‘Scheme’. Well at least they’re calling a spade a ’spade’.”
Yes. But deliberately misunderstanding it is more fun.
So true. Especially since “scheme” in the American sense is so much more apropos. Was in the case of the debtor with the corrupt judges in his pocket. Fast forward 10 years later and the ETS “Scheme” where the corrupt politicians are in the pockets of the AGWers.
The more things change…