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On 1 December 2009, after more than 15 years representing the [[Liberal Party of Australia]], he became the party's leader after the popularity of previous leader [[Malcolm Turnbull]] began to fall. He fought against the Australian [[cap and trade]] equivalent "ETS" (emission trading scheme), which has been called 'the single worst piece of legislation to be foisted on the Australian public' by respected environmental scientist Professor Bob Carter, who acted as an expert witness on climate change before the U.S. Senate Committee of Environment & Public Works, the Australian and N.Z. parliamentary Select Committees into emissions trading and in a meeting in parliament house, Stockholm. He was also a primary science witness in the U.K. High Court case of Dimmock v. H.M.'s Secretary of State for Education, the 2007 judgement which identified nine major scientific errors in  Al Gore's film [[An Inconvenient Truth]].<ref>http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/?p=690</ref><ref>http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/scientist-hits-out-at-emissions-bill/1548894.aspx</ref><ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/</ref> The ETS bill was later rejected by the [[Australian Senate]] and only 2 Liberal Party senators voted for the bill while even the [[Australian Greens|Greens]] voted against it.<ref>http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/australian-senate-rejects-ets-115811</ref><ref>http://www.smh.com.au/national/dead--ets-to-rise-again-20091202-k4c1.html?autostart=1</ref>

On 1 December 2009, after more than 15 years representing the [[Liberal Party of Australia]], he became the party's leader after the popularity of previous leader [[Malcolm Turnbull]] began to fall. He fought against the Australian [[cap and trade]] equivalent "ETS" (emission trading scheme), which has been called 'the single worst piece of legislation to be foisted on the Australian public' by respected environmental scientist Professor Bob Carter, who acted as an expert witness on climate change before the U.S. Senate Committee of Environment & Public Works, the Australian and N.Z. parliamentary Select Committees into emissions trading and in a meeting in parliament house, Stockholm. He was also a primary science witness in the U.K. High Court case of Dimmock v. H.M.'s Secretary of State for Education, the 2007 judgement which identified nine major scientific errors in  Al Gore's film [[An Inconvenient Truth]].<ref>http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/?p=690</ref><ref>http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/scientist-hits-out-at-emissions-bill/1548894.aspx</ref><ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/</ref> The ETS bill was later rejected by the [[Australian Senate]] and only 2 Liberal Party senators voted for the bill while even the [[Australian Greens|Greens]] voted against it.<ref>http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/australian-senate-rejects-ets-115811</ref><ref>http://www.smh.com.au/national/dead--ets-to-rise-again-20091202-k4c1.html?autostart=1</ref>

==Popular culture & Polling==

==Popular culture & Polling==