Huffington Post: As the post-mortems arrive to determine the cause of death for Australia's carbon tax, a couple of questions emerge:
Why did this happen?
What lessons can we learn?
The answer to the first question is fairly simple: A politician - Julia Gillard - promised she wouldn't tax carbon, and then she broke that promise. This happened because her Labor Party needed to form a coalition government with the Green Party. The price the Greens demanded for that alliance was a carbon tax, and so she acquiesced....