Senate votes to kill off carbon tax
The death knell rang just before 11.15am.
The carbon tax was gone and a bitter political chapter closed.
Just 15 minutes later Tony Abbott returned from Sydney, eventually triumphant after three attempts to kill it off and a week’s delay.
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