(September 15, 2012 at 1:57 am)Stue Denim Wrote: Keep in mind though that Malcolm Turnbull lost the liberal party leadership to Tony Abbot on that issue pretty much, but it was very close (like 1 vote).
btw for the non aussies, 'the liberal party' is actually the conservative party atm, 'Liberal party' is just the name (though they do have a more classically liberal wing, Malcom Turnbul has called himself libertarian).
Actually I was referring to Tony Abbott's ability use public's mistrust of the environmentalist movement. That it is quite easy to force the Rudd Labor government to dump the proposed emissions trading scheme and eventually led to Kevin Rudd being deposed as Labor leader and Prime Minister.
If the environmentalist movement had more credibility among the Australian populace. It would have been much harder for the Liberal Party (with Tony Abbott leading it) to force the Labor government to dump it's proposed emissions trading scheme.
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