Power Failure by Chubb Philip;

Author:Chubb, Philip;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd
Published: 2014-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

I did raise it and it was discussed. It wasn’t a long discussion. I was pretty new to Cabinet and I was a lone voice … You raise these things, you put the argument and when it’s not accepted you say, “Well, I’ve done what I could.” If this had arisen in the last year I would have pressed it very, very hard because I would have thought she would listen to me and it’s really important.20

Emerson approached her three times to try to get her to take a different approach. “Even after she’d said it once, I said, ‘Please don’t say that again.’” He argued that the government was implementing an ETS with an initial fixed price, and that was how it should be described. Gillard had expressly reserved the right during the 2010 campaign to create a market mechanism to price carbon. “But Julia felt that the whole thing would just become bogged down in an endless debate around semantics, that it was better for her to say, ‘Yes, it is a carbon tax’ and then we’d move on. But we didn’t move on.”

Gillard had alternatives, one of which was put by ABC commentator Barrie Cassidy in a light-hearted but devastatingly perceptive piece on the website The Drum. Cassidy created what he called hindsight answers, so that the exchange between reporter Ewart and Gillard would have gone this way:

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