Grendel wrote on Aug 17
th, 2009 at 8:44am:
ROTFLMAO
Well unfortunately we'll have to wait and in 30 years time you lot will just say... oh well that's due to "climate change"... no matter what the weather/climate is like. what a fraud. you lot are fairies.
Well if it is proved to be wrong( million to one chance of that) you and the 12% of confusionalists should be very happy.
Quote:Phillip Coorey, Chief Political Correspondent
August 17, 2009
A MAJORITY of voters supports the Government reintroducing the legislation for its emissions trading scheme in three months, an act that could turn the bill into a trigger for an early, double dissolution election.
The finding is contained in the latest Herald/Nielsen poll which also shows support for Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition has failed to recover from the beating it took when the OzCar affair backfired in June. Mr Turnbull is more unpopular than Brendan Nelson was at this time last year, a month before he was dumped.
And, despite it being firmly entrenched that Peter Costello is resigning from politics, the former treasurer remains the most preferred Liberal leader by far.
Of those polled, 35 per cent back Mr Costello, followed by 19 per cent for Joe Hockey, 17 per cent for Mr Turnbull, 10 per cent for Tony Abbott and 3 per cent for Andrew Robb.
Among Coalition voters, Mr Costello has 42 per cent support followed by Mr Turnbull on 23 per cent and Mr Hockey on 19 per cent.
The poll of 1400 voters was taken from Thursday evening to Saturday night. On Thursday, the Senate rejected Labor's legislation for an emissions trading scheme.
The Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, stressed yesterday the Government was ''not interested'' in an early election. However, if the Government waits until November to reintroduce the bill, and it is blocked again, it will become an election trigger.
The poll found 55 per cent thought the Government should reintroduce the bill in three months while 29 per cent backed the Coalition's call to wait until early next year ''to see what the rest of the world does''. Twelve per cent wanted the scheme abandoned altogether.