Fed: Abbott challenges PM to climate change debate

AAP General News (Australia)
12-06-2009
Fed: Abbott challenges PM to climate change debate

MELBOURNE, Dec 6 AAP - Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has challenged Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd to a series of public debates on climate change.

The government plans to re-introduce its emissions trading scheme (ETS) legislation
into parliament when it resumes in February, after the bills were defeated in the Senate
last week.

Mr Abbott says most people want more information on the scheme.

"That's code for saying that they don't understand it," he told the Nine Network on Sunday.

"I'd like to challenge the prime minister to a series of public debates on this subject
before parliament comes back.

"This big emissions tax, it's going to be not just for this year or next year, it's
going to be forever if it comes in, and it shouldn't come in with(out) the public understanding
exactly what it means."

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