And yet it lives! The planet-cooling carbon tax, which has heated up so many power bills, survived today's bid in the Senate to see it dispatched. A simple and ugly brute, that it commanded the affection of Christine Milne was to be expected. The loyalty of Bill Shorten is a mystery -- unless, perhaps, a misplaced strand of political DNA has inspired the urge to suicide. There is an election looming in WA, where the tax is not very popular. Poor Bill, he may well have consigned his Labor leadership to an adjacent Death Row cell.
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