MORE than 70% of voters in Clive Palmers electorate of Fairfax have backed a polluter pays approach to tackling carbon emissions, a recent poll has found. The Reachtel poll of more than 900 Fairfax voters, conducted for WWF Australia, came as Mr Palmer met in Canberra on Wednesday with former US Vice-President Al Gore. It showed some 71.2% of voters surveyed in mid-June supported companies paying to reduce their emissions, rather than the Abbott Governments plans to pay them $2.5 billion in incentives. WWF Australia climate change spokeswoman Kellie Caught said Mr Palmer was developing a reputation for sticking up for battlers, urging him to back an emissions trading scheme or the existing carbon tax. While 11.9% of respondents said they still supported government paying polluters to reduce emissions, some 16.1% were undecided. Despite the support for a polluter pays system, some 38.2% of Fairfax voters still backed the new Senate abolishing the existing carbon tax, with 32% supported keeping it. The survey also asked voters about the governments budget measures, with a massive 30.9% of respondents opposed to Prime Minister Tony Abbotts paid parental leave scheme. A further 18.7% were opposed to the proposed $7 GP co-payment and 16% did not want funding to states for hospitals and schools reduced.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:54:27 +0000
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