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June 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s doom and gloom predictions have been the “greatest deceit” in the carbon tax debate, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says.
Mr Combet admitted there were “frustration in the community” over the carbon tax.
He said it had long been the Labor Party’s policy to put a price on carbon and have an emissions trading scheme.
The carbon price that comes into effect from July, is a three year fixed price period before the trading scheme begins.
“At the end of the day the greatest deceit that has been conducted through this whole argument has been by Tony Abbott,” Mr Combet told Sky News.
“He’s run around trying to terrify people in an incredibly gutless performance, with the objective of disrupting the minority government and get rid of it before a carbon price comes in.”
Mr Combet said after the carbon price begins there was a risk for Mr Abbott that his “doom and gloom won’t transpire”.
“It’s got to be tested against lived experiences,” Mr Combet said.
He compared the forecast impact of the GST, 2.5 per cent, with that of the carbon price 0.7 per cent – “less than a cent in a dollar.”
Mr Combet foreshadowed Labor will campaign on its record of climate change action at the next election.
“My instinct is to fight the issue out,” he said.
“Once the carbon price starts Tony Abbott’s credibility will start to fall away very rapidly.”
Mr Abbott is trying to crab walk away from “all the doom” he predicted that won’t happen, he said.
Mr Combet said he will draw on his experience working on difficult campaigns in the past such as the maritime waterfront dispute.
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