Here’s A List Of Every Senator Who Voted To Repeal The Carbon Tax
Just for future reference.
Earlier today the Senate finally abolished the carbon tax, making Australia the only country in the world to get rid of an existing price on carbon, and leaving us without a climate policy at all.
The moment when the Senate voted to repeal the carbon tax https://t.co/qG8qCKrCA7
— ABC News (@abcnews) July 17, 2014
The motion passed by 39 votes to 32. Immediately after, the Australian Conservation Foundation began tweeting out the names of those 39 Senators who voted the carbon tax out.
For posterity, let’s note the names of those who chose to kill a working price on pollution:
— ACF (@AusConservation) July 17, 2014
Senator Glenn Lazarus
— ACF (@AusConservation) July 17, 2014
Senator David Leyonhjelm — ACF (@AusConservation) July 17, 2014
Senator Bill Heffernan — ACF (@AusConservation) July 17, 2014
Senator Cory Bernardi
— ACF (@AusConservation) July 17, 2014
Senator George Brandis
— ACF (@AusConservation) July 17, 2014
The full list can be found on the ACF’s Twitter feed, which summed up the reason behind it pretty nicely:
Those people will need to explain to their grandkids what they did today.
— ACF (@AusConservation) July 17, 2014
It might be worth keeping those names in mind in thirty or forty years.
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Feature image via Sydney Morning Herald.