Senate votes down emissions trading scheme

Strike one. I for one hope the second strike comes in November, before it is struck out once and for all after the international community fail to come up with an agreement in Copenhagen.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25923323-601,00.html

Liberal Senator Minchin sums up this whole fiasco perfectly in his response to the Senate:

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/it_should_have_been_defeated_because_its_insane/