“..Public support for Rudd’s ETS collapses..”
“..Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s green credentials continue to take a hammering as he prepares for an election this year in which the environment will be a key issue.
Two new polls have confirmed that support for his major climate change policy - a greenhouse emissions trading scheme - is collapsing even as the Government tries for a third time to ram it through Parliament.
One poll shows that Opposition leader Tony Abbott’s alternative carbon reduction proposal is now preferred by most voters.
And while the Government still enjoys a commanding lead over the Coalition, the gap is narrowing and Rudd’s personal popularity is sliding.
His greenhouse problems lie in the complexity of his ETS and the Government’s failure to adequately explain it to an increasingly sceptical public..
.. especially after the failure of the December climate change summit in Copenhagen..”
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