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July 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Prime Minister Julia Gillard says people now have a chance to stop listening to politicians and judge the carbon tax for themselves.
Speaking on the first business day of the tax, Ms Gillard said people could make up their own minds “not based on the claims of politicians but from by what they can see in their own lives”.
“What people are going to see is tax cuts … and people are going to see that the claims like the coal industry is going to shut down is all untrue,” she told the Seven Network on Monday.
The prime minister acknowledged there would be some flow-on effects from big polluters paying $23 a tonne on carbon, but said tax cuts would benefit seven million people.
According to the latest Newspoll, Labor’s primary vote in Queensland is down to just 22 per cent.
The results mean federal Labor MPs in the state are facing a swing against them of 10 per cent, which would unseat every Labor MP, The Australian reported.
A Nielsen poll published in Fairfax newspapers found opposition to the carbon tax had risen three points to 62 per cent.
Just over half of those surveyed thought they would be worse off as a result of the tax.
But Ms Gillard said implementing a price on carbon wasn’t about the polls.
“This is about what is right for our nation’s future,” she said.
“We have had some very divisive debates in the past – the GST, universal superannuation, Medicare … and when the dust has settled and people have had the opportunity to judge it all for themselves they recognised it was the right thing for the nation.”
Ms Gillard defended some of the “stunts” government ministers participated in when the tax was launched on Sunday.
Treasurer Wayne Swan fronted cameras with a grocery bill that had not increased as a result of the carbon tax, while ministers in Whyalla pretended to hide in case the town exploded.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott famously said Whyalla would be “wiped off the map” by the tax.
“Well, I think it is appropriate with all of that doom that has been spread about for months and months for us to say the doomsayers were wrong,” Ms Gillard told Fairfax Radio.
“It debunks the kind of claims we’ve heard which would have led people to believe that the Australian way of life was coming to an end on the first of July.”
NSW Greens senator Lee Rhiannon said her party would vote against moves to dismantle the carbon tax in the Senate if the coalition won the next federal election in a landslide.
“The Greens … will represent the views of those people who want action on climate change,” Senator Rhiannon told AAP on Monday.
“Clearly, the (coalition) and Mr Abbott himself are hell bent on a negative campaign.”
Senator Rhiannon said Labor could recover in the polls.
“Anything is possible in politics.”
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