Strong support for carbon tax in GetUp poll

Most voters in Robertson would vote for a carbon tax or similar if low-income earners were compensated, according to the Peninsula GetUp group.

In a "snap poll" of Robertson voters, GetUp found that 65 per cent of voters over the age of 25, and an overwhelming 95 per cent of voters under 25, according to local group representative Ms Karin Solondz.

According to poll results, when asked what they felt about climate change, 41 per cent of voters aged under 25 said they felt either scared, worried, angry, stressed, depressed or sad.

Of those over 25, the number was 69 per cent.

Furthermore 95 per cent of young voters thought that food would go up due to drought and climate change and that old growth forests should be saved.

Eighty per cent felt that we should not be shipping coal to China.

Of the over 25 year olds polled, 89 per cent thought the price of food would go up due to drought and climate change, 100 per cent wanted old growth forests saved, and 21 per cent wanted to stop coal transport to China.

Forty-two per cent of over 25 year olds were undecided on coal shipments and 26 per cent wanted to continue shipping coal to China.

Eleven per cent wanted shipping to be gradually reduced.

Email, 8 Aug 2010 Karin Solondz, Peninsula Getup