Gillard is going to set-up a non-parliamentary committee to investigate all things carbon taxation with her new found friends the Greens. Dissenting voices need not apply.
The agreement includes the formation of a new climate change committee made up of experts, politicians from major parties and independents.
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Green’s Christine Milne: You will note in the agreement the proviso for membership of the committee is that the people going onto it are committed to a carbon price. They may not all agree with the mechanism of achieving a carbon price but they all want to a carbon price and the idea is to invite everyone to it and the Coalition clearly if they were in opposition would be invited to join it on that proviso.
This is a direct attack on democracy. We have a parliamentary committee process for a reason: elected representatives report on matters of interest to the public based on their experience at the local level and on what is good for the country. Gillard’s committee will likely be made up of ‘yes’ individuals, ‘renewal’ industry types who expect tax-payers to subside their inefficient business ventures and a range of other vested interests who have little concern for the nation’s prosperity and are certainly not subjected to the accountability of an election.
Democracy killed the ALP’s carbon tax, so the ALP is going implement carbon taxation by killing democracy.