Greens seek to shame Labor by vowing to restore carbon tax

A new clash over a carbon tax will shape the next election as the Greens launch a campaign to reinstate a price on carbon, challenging Labor to embrace the policy as the strongest way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Greens climate change spokesman Adam
Bandt and Labor leader Bill Shorten.CREDIT:

The Greens will vow to restore the carbon price put into place in 2011 and scrapped in 2014, telling voters the Parliament can reinstate the policy as if the scheme had never been repealed by the Coalition.

But it will drop the fixed price in the first three years of the original carbon tax and instead promise a market price linked to overseas carbon schemes.

Read the story from The Age by David Crowe - “Greens seek to shame Labor by vowing to restore carbon tax.”