FED: Turnbull says climate change vote disappointing

AAP General News (Australia)
12-02-2009
FED: Turnbull says climate change vote disappointing

CANBERRA, Dec 2 AAP - Former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull says the defeat of
Labor's emissions trading scheme is disappointing.

"This is a very disappointing result, contrary to the national interest and the interest
of the Liberal Party," Mr Turnbull wrote in his blog on Wednesday.

"Australia needs to get on with the business of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions."

Mr Turnbull returned to his familiar arguments about the Liberals having previously
supported an ETS.

"We recognised that in government and started legislating for an ETS.

"As Mr Howard has observed, the Rudd government's ETS is very similar to the one we,
as Liberals, took to the last election."

Mr Turnbull was deposed as Liberal leader on Tuesday and replaced by the right-wing Tony Abbott.

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