"What absolute political cowardice. What an absolute failure of leadership."**

[sarren]

"...we recognise the two fundamental realities we have to deal with: what's happened internationally, and most importantly, Mr Abbott's change in position, his backflip. We'll assess what has occurred over the period up to 2012 where we know that the world will have to deal with what it will do after the first Kyoto protocol period is finished."WHU

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[angriest]

The ETS was always going to be next to impossible, because he couldn't get it past the Coalition in one direction, and it didn't go far enough for the Greens in the other.

I'm very sad.

[sarren]

Oh, I know. It's that they're now deferring ANY action until after Kyoto runs out and waiting to see what the other countries do that feels like a betrayal, after stating explicitly that both of those things unacceptable.