The environment may benefit from Gillard's inaction

The reason why I chose this article is because it is about an election which has a connection with environment.

Julia Gillard’s has effectively responded for climate rules to “ordinary Australians”, on whose “skills, capacity, decency and plain common sense” Gillard will rely to tell her about the community consensus on climate change. In effect, it institutionalizes what is already clear — this is a Government controlled by focus group reactions. However, Gillard ought to pause a moment to consider her climate response. For many people in Australia, climate is a key vote changer and this made Gillard's announcements risk losing these voters.

Labor has been playing politics with climate change for 3 years and it has not stopped. However, whereas for most of that time it used climate change to damage the Coalition, now it has to defend itself against the issue. It will only be with the political cover afforded by this nonsensical Assembly that the Government will take any action on a carbon price. Rarely has so much goodwill and political capital been wasted on such an important issue. However, it is clear is that the Australian public does want the government to step in and do something about climate change. Most commentators saw Rudd's 2007 ascension to the top job as being heavily influenced by his promises on climate change. Similarly, his fall from popularity was associated with his backing away from the troubled Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

I think this is a great thing of taking action on this issue.

http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2010/07/23//2962209.htm