Australia pledges to deliver carbon price next year

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard predicts long-awaited climate bill will pass in 2011

Australia's prime minister Julia Gillard today announced she was determined to put a price on carbon as soon as next year, declaring 2011 the year in which long-awaited climate change legislation would...

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