Government can win carbon tax debate

By David Hetherington, Executive Director of Per Capita writes in The Australian, March 17, 2011

THE moral outrage over Julia Gillard's carbon tax is running white hot. The conservative commentators are up in arms. The masses are outraged, Newspoll tells us. How dare she? A sitting Prime Minister proposing significant new economic policy?

The gall of it.

Yet far from decrying Gillard's audacity, we should welcome the debate it brings. Not just the specifics of the carbon tax argument but the debate itself.

For the arrival of a keenly contested substantive argument over policy goes some way to answering an emerging and important question of our time: "Is our politics broken?"

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