I think a fresh federal election should be called, and the Labor Party made to pay the $200 million this will cost.

Ju-liar Gillard cannot inflict the huge deception regarding a Carbon Tax on the electorate, and then continue to ignore the mandate of 70% of the people. She should go to hell in a hand basket.

Now wait a minute! We cannot afford to rack up more debt, so the hand basket will have to stay in the shop.

Lorikeet Do they call you whinging Lorikeet why don't you just wait for the next election to vote her out in the mean time accept her decision just like we did when John Howard ruined a lot of people life wow what you say you never heard about anyone having problems when John Howard was in power just because it wasn't in the media doesn't mean it never happen We manage our life without whinging and waited for the election to vote him out how about you doing the same

I didn't say anything much about John Howard on this blog. That must have been someone else.

I would prefer the country to be run by Nationals, DLP and like minded politicians. I would like to give Labor/Greens and possibly Liberals a miss.

A Carbon Tax is a huge change. It will affect our country's economy and individual circumstances very badly.

Last night a man on TV who is an expert on clouds of ash, said the current problem is being hyped up by the airlines (probably at the government's behest, I think), so people will be too scared to reject a great big new TAX ON AIR.

Rudd said he wanted an Asia/Pacific Economic Union by 2020. In the EEU, Greece is now to receive its second bail out package. My concern is that one failed economy has become several, with others teetering on the brink, and that economic unity is about paying other countries' foreign debts and being beholden to the UN and the corporates.

This would affect us even more badly in the Asia/Pacific, since there are mostly very poor nations who would need Australia to share their losses.

We absolutely do not need a Carbon Tax to crush the remaining 6% of our manufacturing industries and leave us with double digit unemployment as well as lots of pensions to pay.

We need to pay down both government and individual debt. Any Carbon Tax Offset provided by Labor would probably have to be borrowed, but it seems they are very much in favour of leaving the fate of our economy in a pawn shop at every available opportunity.