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Australia: Kevin Rudd: Labor had no mandate for the carbon tax
2013-08-25 02:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Kevin Rudd has admitted Labor did not have a mandate to introduce the carbon tax in this term of government, conceding one of the coalition's central lines of political attack. Speaking on ABC TV's Insiders programme on Sunday morning, Rudd said he was "the first one to admit that in the past the [Labor] government has got a number of things wrong" and he cited as an example: "I don't think our actions on the carbon tax were right and I changed it We didn't have a mandate for it." He also...
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