Lindsay Tanner’s latest post at The Age Business Blog is out and here’s the key quote:
The Greens naturally rejected the proposal. Their position was effectively predetermined. Regardless of how radical any Government proposal is, the Greens will automatically condemn it as insufficient. As they don’t have the responsibility of managing any economic disruption that flows from introducing a carbon pollution reduction scheme, and they only answer to less than 10% of the community and don’t have to bring majority community opinion with them, they have the luxury of taking this stance. Let’s hope that their grandstanding won’t extend to crippling the proposal’s prospects of getting through the Senate.
It doesn’t look very conciliatory. In fact, it looks like the Greens tough talk may have effectively dealt themselves out of any influence in the Senate on the ETS.
