Malcolm Turnbull has once again highlighted the inadequacy of the Coalition's Climate Change policies, and for all the potential swinging voters, who could never entertain supporting a Coalition led by Tony Abbott, we are watching with keen interest, and anticipation that this may be the start of Turnbull's campaign to retake the leadership of the Liberal party.
With the amount of media support that Abbott has managed to garner for his anti-Carbon Tax stance, based on his own, personal, rejection of the scientific communities findings on Global Warming, it seems that Turnbull is prepared to stand by his belief in the need to seriously address the Climate change issue, and may be making a bold move where the winner takes all, leadership of the Libs, and leadership of the Nation, as our next PM.
I sincerely hope he is successful for the sake of the country, and it's future generations.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/19/3220796.htm OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott says Malcolm Turnbull "fully supports" the Coalition's policy on tackling climate change.
Mr Turnbull told ABC Lateline last night the chief advantage of the Coalition's direct action policy was that it could be easily abandoned.
Mr Turnbull, who lost the Liberal leadership in 2009 over his support for an emissions trading scheme but remains on the frontbench, also said it was "very expensive" to pay polluters directly to reduce emissions.
But Mr Abbott said today that his frontbench supported the "direct action" policy.
"I saw Malcolm on Lateline. I thought he gave a very strong performance under a bit of goading and provocation," Mr Abbott said at the Sanitarium food plant in NSW.
"Malcolm and I talk regularly about these subjects and he fully supports the Coalition policy."
Mr Abbott said that encouraging the reduction of emissions through funding new technology and carbon farming was the "smart way" to address climate change, while a carbon tax was the "dumb way".
He said both Labor and the Coalition supported a five per cent cut in emissions by 2020.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in Adelaide, ahead of a community cabinet meeting tonight, Mr Abbott was out of touch.
She said Mr Turnbull had let the "cat out of the bag" about the cost and effectiveness of the Coalition policy.
"He told us the truth that it would blow the Budget, and he told us the truth that the rest of the world is acting too,"
Ms Gillard said.
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