Gillard suffers climate setback - National News - National - General - Camden Advertiser

THE Gillard government has suffered a serious blow to its carbon tax sales pitch with the Productivity Commission saying it is not able to compare the burden on Australian industries with competitors overseas.
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The Coalition leader, Tony Abbott, addressed about 3000 angry demonstrators at a ''no carbon tax rally'' outside Parliament House.

Some were climate change sceptics, bearing banners declaring ''Carbon dioxide is plant food'' and ''carbon dioxide is a harmless trace gas, you are fraudulent criminals''.