Climate-change showdown
PARLIAMENT is shaping up for a climate-change showdown this week as Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull go head-to-head on emissions trading
Ben Packham | Herald Sun | February 07, 2010
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott (left) and backbencher Malcolm Turnbull will continue to fight over climate change.
Mr Turnbull will back Labor's climate change policy in a speech today and has signalled he will cross the floor to vote with the Government.
As the Government vowed to push ahead with its ETS, Mr Abbott said he respected his predecessor's decision to go against the party line.
"We have a long tradition in our party of respecting people who feel so strongly about particular issues that they don't vote with us," Mr Abbott told ABC television.
Mr Abbott yesterday continued his assault on the Government's ETS, which he has labelled Labor's "great big new tax".
However, he was yesterday edging away from his own description of climate change as "absolute crap".
"I think what I actually said was that the so-called settled science was a little aromatic," he said.
"Now you don't have to accept the totality of the science to still think that there is a reasonable argument for taking sensible precautions against possible risk, and that's what we're doing."
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the Government would not give up on its ETS, despite US President Barack Obama's move to shelve his emissions trading plan.
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