Link: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/27/the-australian-ets-vote-a-political-litmus-test-for-cap-and-trade/

Many here in the USA got their first inkling of the extraordinary events going on in Australia with the vote that was supposed to happen in parliament on Friday over “ETS” or Emissions Trading Scheme, with this WUWT post: "Ripples of Climategate? Liberal MP’s desert Turnbull in Australia over emissions trading scheme." On Friday, 12 Liberal members of parliament resigned their frontbench positions rather than be forced into a party line vote for ETS. That is quite a statement. The MP’s are hearing from their constituents in large numbers.