Fed: Rudd will be forced to call early election - Beazley

AAP General News (Australia)
08-19-2009
Fed: Rudd will be forced to call early election - Beazley

Former Labor leader KIM BEAZLEY believes the Rudd government will be forced into an
early election if it wants to get its emissions trading scheme through parliament.

But he says the coalition would be smashed in an early poll .. losing heavily in both
houses .. leaving a Labor-Green Senate majority.

Mr BEAZLEY has told Sky News KEVIN RUDD doesn't want an early election .. but at the
end of the day he'll have to have one .. as he doesn't think the coalition can unite over
the ETS.

The former Labor leader says the government would be able to get its ETS bills through
in a post-election joint sitting of both houses of parliament.

AAP RTV keh/sb/fdf

KEYWORD: CLIMATE BEAZLEY (CANBERRA)

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