.Federal Opposition backbencher Wilson Tuckey has again emailed all his colleagues attacking his leader Malcolm Turnbull over emissions trading. An opinion poll today shows the Liberal leader has recorded his worst performance in a Newspoll as the alternative prime minister,dropping three points to 16 per cent. But the poll also shows 45 per cent of people support Australia waiting to introduce an emissions trading scheme until after the Copenhagen climate change talks,whereas 41 per cent say it should bring in the scheme now. [...]
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.The Federal Opposition may have blinked in the stand-off over emissions trading but the Government is not yet ready to cut it any slack. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says the Government is not prepared to delay a vote on the issue after the Coalition outlined its nine principles for negotiating over the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. [...] . Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has rebuffed a call from his frontbench colleague Tony Abbott to pass Labor’s emissions trading scheme to avoid a double dissolution election. Although Mr Abbott believes an emissions trading scheme (ETS) won’t cut global carbon emissions and will cost jobs,he said opposing the scheme would expose the coalition to a fight it can’t win. He rejected Mr Abbott’s call,made in The Australian newspaper on Friday,to back the scheme to avoid a double dissolution election. Mr Turnbull says the coalition will block Labor’s legislation in August unless it meets the opposition’s nine key demands. [...] .Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has unveiled the details of a significant policy shift on the Government’s emissions trading scheme. The shadow cabinet held a phone hook-up this afternoon and has agreed to vote for the legislation this year if the Government agrees to a number of amendments. All this is aimed at avoiding turning the legislation into a trigger for a double dissolution election. As a staunch Catholic and one who once began training for the priesthood,Tony Abbott is obviously someone who believes in conversions. [...] .The Coalition remains divided over the Government’s emissions trading scheme,with two senior frontbenchers at odds over whether the Opposition should pass the bill. In an article in the Australian newspaper today,frontbencher Tony Abbott called on colleagues to ultimately support the scheme or risk facing a double dissolution election. The Opposition’s position has been to reject the scheme when it is voted on in August,but in doing so the Government would then have a potential double dissolution trigger. But Opposition Senate Leader Nick Minchin says the bill will be voted down when it comes before the Senate next month. [...] . Liberal MP Wilson Tuckey has called Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull “inexperienced”and “arrogant”over his stance on the emissions trading scheme. The Coalition has said it would not support a carbon pollution reduction scheme before UN climate changes talks are held in Copenhagen in December. This caused an outcry from Mr Tuckey,who has circulated a damning email to Coalition MPs. But Mr Turnbull said on Monday he would look at amending the proposed scheme rather than blocking it when it is put to the vote in the Senate in August [...] .Federal Coalition MP Wilson Tuckey has described his leader,Malcolm Turnbull,as inexperienced and arrogant. In an email sent to all Coalition MPs,Mr Tuckey says Mr Turnbull’s stance on the issue of an emissions trading scheme needs to be discussed. Mr Tuckey says Mr Turnbull’s views are at odds with the Coalition party room decision to oppose the legislation. “One as versed in business as our Leader knows full well that judgements will be made on the commercial basis of ‘can I pass this cost onto a captive market’or ‘should I run down my existing investment and leave town’for greener pastures such as China,where Government investment is going to achieve the emissions reductions for me,or the USA where the science could be disproved before their Claytons ETS is implemented and that’s assuming it can pass the Senate,considering 44 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted against even this Claytons Bill,”Mr Tuckey said in the email. . “Malcolm Turnbull embarrassed me,”he said.”He argues the Government’s scheme is by its nature a job destroyer and there are no amendments that could make it work [...] . ANY attempt by Malcolm Turnbull to compromise over climate change and pass the Government’s emissions trading scheme next month will put the Opposition Leader on a collision course with his party. Mr Turnbull,who is fearful of giving Labor a trigger for an early election,hinted yesterday at moving amendments to Labor’s emissions trading scheme when the Senate voted on it next month,rather than opposing it outright,as is the Coalition’s current intention. Mr Turnbull toldradio yesterday there were “powerful arguments”for delaying the scheme until next year,after the United Nations summit in Copenhagen in December,and by which time the final shape of an emissions trading scheme in the United States should be known [...] . TWO-THIRDS of voters support the Rudd Government’s emissions trading scheme in a finding that will do little to ease pressure on the Opposition to deal with the scheme in the Senate before the end of the year. The latest Herald/Nielsen poll finds 65 per cent support the scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and 25 per cent oppose it. However,progress over the weekend in the United States towards establishing a scheme has been seized on by the Government to step up the pressure on Mr Turnbull and the Opposition leader hinted yesterday the Coalition may now move earlier. [...] With alcopops and emmissions trading it was always going to be a bad week for the coalition. I suppose they thought they’d try the ute thing on for a smokescreen,but it looks like it will backfire on Turnbull personally instead. …[...] | |||||