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| [00:00.00] | The Australian parliament has rejected government plans |
| [00:03.43] | to introduce ambitious carbon trading scheme to tackle global warming. |
| [00:06.89] | If the government is defeated again, |
| [00:08.88] | it could trigger a general election. |
| [00:10.56] | Nick Bryant reports from Sydney. |
| [00:12.13] | The emissions trading scheme |
| [00:13.91] | was a centerpiece of the Rudd government environmental strategy. |
| [00:16.77] | Its aim was to cut greenhouse emissions by 5% over the next ten years. |
| [00:21.35] | Yet the Rudd government does not control the upper hand |
| [00:24.71] | of the Australian parliament, the Senate. |
| [00:26.58] | And the measure has been defeated by 42 votes to 30. |
| [00:30.60] | Outside the ruling Labor Party, |
| [00:32.84] | this was a friendless measure. |
| [00:34.17] | Greens senators have called for more stringent reductions. |
| [00:37.27] | The opposition Liberal Party |
| [00:39.00] | believed the scheme would hamper the all imported mining sector |
| [00:41.80] | that was being rushed through parliament without proper consultation. |
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