ANALYSIS: How the carbon tax has come back to haunt the Australian government
When it comes to public policy, we learned long ago that if you want to change behaviour, say to limit the health impact of smoking, one of the easiest ways to do that is to tax goods and services — in the case of smoking, tobacco.
In 1997, then-prime minister John Howard grappled with ways to deal with carbon emissions but took almost a decade beforeKevin Rudd was elected in 2007 on a platform of addressing climate change but his emissions trading scheme initiative disintegrated under the weight of political bickering between his government, the Coalition and the Greens.
Emissions have since levelled, possibly because of the shutdowns of some large coal-fired power stations during the past two years.
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