On Thursday, the newly installed Australian Senate voted to repeal Australia’s carbon pricing scheme, fulfilling an election promise made by the country’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. Unfortunately, no new legislation has yet been presented to the nation’s parliament to replace the scheme, leaving one of the world’s biggest per capita carbon polluters without an official emissions reduction policy. In response Opposition Leader Bill Shorten noted, “Today, Tony Abbott has made Australia the first country in the world to reverse action on climate change.”
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