Quadrant Online - My fellow Australians

As we all know it was Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan who convinced Kevin Rudd to get out of the ETS and the whole climate change business just over 12 months ago. It was Julia who rounded off that bit of hanky-panky with an election promise that there would be no carbon tax. So what happened between then and now? Bob Brown—that’s what happened. With that in mind, it seems fair to jot down an Address to the Nation that perhaps Julia Gillard should have given — but didn’t.

Here goes, the greatest speech Julia Gillard never gave