Daily ETS conferences needed: Abbott
The Opposition is demanding Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong hold daily press conferences to explain how the emissions trading scheme (ETS) will work.
Opposition frontbencher Tony Abbott says voters have been kept in the dark about the controversial emissions trading scheme, and the government have some explaining to do.
“What we need is for Kevin Rudd and for Penny Wong to face up to interrogation,” he told reporters in Canberra today.
“(They) should face up to press conferences day in and day out and explain chapter and verse … exactly what their emissions trading scheme will do.”
Tony Abbott should spend his time and energy working out how his party are going to make what the Labor Party have put forward better rather than grandstanding and trying to score cheap politic points. Historically in a crisis parties work together – the problem is there are still too many ludites in the Liberal party who refuse to accept that we have a problem at all, let along a global problem of epic proportions.