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Published online 1 April 2009 | Nature 458, 554-555 (2009) | doi:10.1038/458554b
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Australian cap-and-trade plan comes under fire
Plans to curb greenhouse-gas emissions face political opposition.
The Australian government's proposed cap-and-trade scheme to regulate greenhouse gases, released in draft legislation last month, is facing mounting criticism from opposition politicians. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whose Labor party holds a slim majority in the House of Representatives and none in the Senate, is under pressure to alter the plan or risk defaulting on a promise to implement a system by 2010.
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Let them "cap" themselves into oblivion. Perhaps the Australians have too many dodos in Canberra.