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Gillard still hot to trot on a carbon tax
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has vowed to put a price on carbon even if the United States scraps plans to address climate change.
The opposition has called for the federal government to renege on a carbon tax after US President Barack Obama was dealt a serious blow in the US mid-term elections last week.
A Republican majority in the US House of Representatives is likely to curtail the plans of President Obama, a Democrat, for a cap and trade system to curb emissions.
But Ms Gillard said Australia would persist with plans to put a price on carbon even if the US, the world's biggest economy, didn't.
"On climate change, President Obama is obviously defining the strategy for his country, in circumstances where the Congress has been difficult for President Obama to deliver his reform agenda on climate change, and post the mid-term elections, it is going to be increasingly difficult," she told the Nine Network.
"We are great friends and allies of America, but we are not an American State. We are our own country, we will determine our own strategy."
Ms Gillard said she looked forward to meeting President Obama at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Yokohama this week.
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