Denied, deferred, triumphant? Climate change, carbon trading and the Greens in the Australian federal election of 21 August 2010
2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 20; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09644016.2011.573363
ISSN1743-8934
Autores Tópico(s)Social Media and Politics
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements The principal sources of the information employed here are Australian Electoral Commission (aec.gov.au), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (abc.net.au), The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. Thanks to Howard Bamsey, Peter Christoff, Kate Crowley, Narelle Miragliotta and Bruce Tranter for helpful comments on the penultimate draft. Notes 1. Newspoll found that the proportion who did 'not believe that climate change is currently occurring' rose from 12% to 22% between July 2008 and February 2010, but the proportion believing that climate change was caused entirely or in part by human activity fell only from 96% to 94%. The proportion rating climate change an important issue that would influence how they would vote in an election fell from 50% in February 2009 to 40% in February 2010, but this appears to reflect less a decline in the salience of climate as an issue than the fact that Labor's margin as the party best able to tackle climate change shrank during that year from 19% to 5% (Newspoll, 17 February 2010). Climate change was not included as a distinct issue prompt in Newspolls until July 2008. 2. In May 2010, the Neilsen poll found that 58% supported an ETS, up from 56% in February, and those opposed to delay outnumbered those in favour of delaying its introduction. 3. Because the ACT has only two Senators, it was never likely that a candidate from outwith the two major parties would win a seat.
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