Australia’s Carbon Plan Passes as Gillard Faces Asylum Fight
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Australia’s lower house passed Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s carbon plan today as she struggles to rebound from record-low public support and win backing for a more closely contested vote on immigration policy.
The program to cut Australia’s carbon emissions, announced on July 10, was approved with votes from the Greens Party and three independent lawmakers wooed by Gillard. A legislative victory on the carbon tax, which is contingent on a vote in the upper house Senate next month, will help her Labor Party sell the plan to the public, said Rodney Smith, a professor of politics at the University of Sydney.