A crucial piece of legislation?

So far the irritatingly dead-pan Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has maintained that the twice-defeated emissions trading legislation is in the vitally necessary category. The plans are afoot to introduce it for a third time as soon as the Parliament returns next month from its summer break. And this will be occurring at a time when my Crikey colleague Possum Comitatus, after examining recent opinion poll trends, has concludedthus: “In a political nutshell — Labor is losing the ground war on generic global warming opinion in this country.