July 6, 2012: Australia's Herald Sun newspaper just hosted an
online question and answer session between Prime Minister Julia Gillard
and the public about that
country's new "carbon" tax (which came into force on
July 1, 2012).
ICSC is asking for readers' comments about the Prime Minister's
climate
(science and politics) statements. We will select the most
interesting remarks that
we receive and share them with the public via
our Website. ICSC will also send
the most important comments directly to
Prime Minister Gillard's office.
If you do not want to comment, we ask that you at least assign a numerical
rating to each of the PM's answers.
Click on an issue below to read the publics' questions and PM
Gillard's
responses, as well as to submit your own
comments about, and
ratings of, her statements.
You may also just register a rating for each
answer.
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Julia Gillard ready to live blog on the carbon tax. Source: Herald Sun
Political questions:
#1: Did you lie about your election promises to not bring in a "carbon tax"?
#2: "seeing all the polls throughout Australia and understanding that around 70% of the nation do not want a carbon tax and also knowing that you do not have a mandate to bring in this carbon tax do you not think it is wrong to bring in a law that is against the will of the people?" - assess PM's comments and rate, or just rate.
#3: "why are you implementing a tax designed to make us all poorer?"
#4: "the start of Australia's greener future?"
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Thanks Geoff,
ReplyDeleteWe are gradually getting more comments. Up to 40 now on question #1, for example (about 35 from Australia) and about 80 votes. That leaves only 22,672,236 Australian left to comment as, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics:
"On 16 July 2012 at 05:45:48 PM (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be: 22,672,273."
Any ideas how to get significantly more than 1 millionth of your countrymen and women to comment?
;>)
Tom