.Nationals Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce denies he has opened up a split within Coalition ranks over the Government’s carbon trading scheme. Senator Joyce says he remains staunchly against any carbon trading scheme despite Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull confirming that the Coalition will eventually support one. [...]
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.Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce has foreshadowed a possible split in Coalition ranks with a blunt rejection of the Government’s planned carbon trading scheme. [...] .Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has played down suggestions of a rift in the Coalition over climate change. Today Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce voiced strong opposition to the Government’s proposed emissions trading scheme,labelling it as nothing more than a “new tax”and adding:“I think that is a load of rubbish to think that Australia is going to change the climate.”Liberal leader Mr Turnbull says there will always be a range of views within the Coalition but says the position on climate change remains the same [...] | |||||