Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pushed the case for a carbon tax while avoiding the contentious issues of same-sex marriage and asylum seekers at the Victorian Labor Party conference.
Victoria's Labor Party is facing off with Ms Gillard by putting forward motions supporting gay marriage and same-sex adoption, and condemning her deal with Malaysia over asylum seekers at its annual conference on Saturday.
Ms Gillard, who does not support gay marriage, made no mention of those issues in her keynote speech.
Instead she continued to sell the federal government's May budget and press the case for putting a price on carbon.
In her first address as prime minister to a Labor party conference in her home state, Ms Gillard said Labor was determined to win the fight to price carbon.
"We are fighting to price carbon to tackle climate change and to build a clean energy economy which is prepared and strong," she said.
She criticised Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's stance on the climate change debate.
Ms Gillard then reprised the words of US President Barack Obama who recently mocked Mr Trump for his demands to produce a birth certificate to prove he was not born overseas.
“So let me reply to his increasingly hysterical fear campaign with President Obama's words to his nation when answering the hysteria about his birth certificate,’’ Ms Gillard said.
“We do not have time for this kind of silliness.
“We don’t have time for the politicians and shock jocks who deny the scientific conclusions of NASA and the CSIRO. We don’t have time for made-up figures and shameless fear-mongering.
“We are a nation determined to do our bit to tackle climate change and urgently needing to make a start to build the clean energy economy of the future.”
Ms Gillard’s comments follow a Galaxy Poll published in Queensland’s Courier Mail yesterday that found Labor's primary vote has crashed to 28 per cent.
Mr Abbott has also pulled in front of Ms Gillard as preferred prime minister by a strong 16 percentage point margin according to the state-based poll.
Ms Gillard's comments came after Mr Abbott this week continued his national campaign highlighting what he says will be the significant cost of the Gillard government's carbon tax.
Ms Gillard said the planet was warming dangerously and the tax's effects would not be as severe as being portrayed by the opposition.
She told delegates that she would not be buckling under the political pressure.
"Our national ethos is to have a go," she said.
"And together we will tackle climate change, price carbon, provide assistance to families and protect jobs.
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