Senator Fiona Nash, Deputy Leader of The Nationals in the Senate today labelled Kevin Rudd’s back down on the ETS “totally embarrassing for the Government” and a victory for families and businesses across rural and regional Australia.
“Finally after months and weeks of spin and grin from the Rudd Government, the Prime Minister has finally realised that the Australian people did not want a bar of his ETS,” Senator Nash said.
“The Nationals have said all along and that is that the ETS is a great big new tax on everything that would devastate rural and regional Australia and not do anything to help the environment.
“The mistruths and back-pedalling we have seen from Kevin Rudd and Minister Wong throughout this entire ETS fiasco has been astonishing.
“The Nationals said from day one the ETS was going to be an abject failure that would sadly take with it the communities of rural and regional Australia with not a care in the world from Labor, Senator Nash said.
“It appears Kevin Rudd is the ultimate hollow man, leading a Government that will do and say anything to win the next election. Labor has demonstrated they clearly don’t have the ticker or the courage to fight the Coalition at the next election on the issue of its ETS.
“The phoney that is Kevin Rudd has woken up to the nation’s significant concerns about this appalling piece of legislation and as such doesn’t have the political conviction to take it to the people so has put it on the backburner.
“The cost and stress to the taxpayers of Australia that this typical Labor shambles has caused is extraordinary. Clearly not ‘the greatest moral challenge of our generation’, but merely a failed attempt by Kevin Rudd and Labor to exert their spin over the working families he continually seeks to claim as his own.
“This legislation has the potential to change and adversely affect the Australian economy like no other and it will mostly be felt in the homes, businesses and lives of the people who make the choice to live outside of capital cities.
“Whilst I welcome whole heartedly the Labor Government’s decision to throw this legislation out the window, it is only for three years and a re-elected Labor Government will charge on with these catastrophic plans,” Senator Nash said.
“Kevin Rudd is just trying to hide this legislation temporarily. Make no mistake if Labor is returned to office later this year the ETS legislation will be back.
“The only way to send this legislation to the dustbin of history is to elect a Coalition Government later this year,” Senator Nash concluded.
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