Seems like the chickens are coming home to roost for the Australian PM who went into her election campaign promising not to implement carbon taxes. And I may be wrong, but I seem to recollect that she only got the job because the previous incumbent was likewise obsessed with taxing carbon:
Support for Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is now even lower than that of her predecessor whom she ousted almost a year ago, driven down by her government’s push to impose a deeply unpopular tax on carbon emissions.
The next scheduled election is not for two years, but media have begun speculating that Gillard could also be dumped by nervous backbenchers unless her Labor Party manages to engineer a rapid turnaround in the next few months.
Her approval rating has shed five points in just a fortnight to 30 per cent, lower than former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s rating when Gillard replaced him in a partyroom coup ahead of last year’s dead-heat election, a Newspoll in The Australian newspaper showed.
(Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/world/5149985/Gillards-ratings-slump-after-carbon-tax)
Gillard’s carbon tax isn’t improving her popularity with some of us, but more people probably support a carbon tax than approve of Gillard. Every day we are all subjected to her god awful voice nittering on with whatever peculiar spin she is attempting today-it’s like slow death by drawing the brain through the nose with fish hooks. So yes 70% of us are sick of it.