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Will the ETS backdown cost the government at the election?

Kevin Rudd has dumped one of the centrepiece promises of his 2007 election campaign, delaying plans for an emissions trading scheme (ETS) until at least 2013.

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Critics say Mr Rudd shelved the legislation, which was twice rejected in parliament and in the Senate, in a bid to 'clear the decks' in an election year.

But that leaves the government with virtually no policies to address climate change, a major global issue which Mr Rudd himself described as the 'great moral challenge of our age'.

Is the government irresponsible for not having a vialbe climate change policy? Should it have kept on with an ETS, or was it a bad idea? Will it affect the way you vote in this year's election?


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