When Tony Abbott spectacularly burst onto the political stage and defeated Malcolm Turnbull at last year's Liberal leadership ballot, the debate over 'Climate Change' dramatically shifted.

It's dangerous ground for Julia Gillard to take Australians for chumps, people are less than passionate about 'Climate Change' now then they were before. And people are even less passionate about a 150 member assembly, as proposed by Gillard, deciding what to do about 'climate change'.

Newspoll today shows a significant shift to the Coalition on primary and preference votes. The poll was taken while Gillard was carrying on about climate change.

My view is that polling will shift the more Gillard talks about new taxes to fix 'climate change'. We can't afford more tax, and we can't afford more tax on electricity. Electricity prices are really starting to bite in the community.

Watching the debate on Channel Seven last night, one thing became abundantly clear; the worm dived whenever Julia mentioned 'climate change'.

Soon we will see Tony Abbott linking higher electricity prices to Julia Gillard's solution to climate change, an ETS.

It may be the case that the Prime Minister has moved to get 'climate change' out of the way early in the election period just like what the Coalition has had to do with WorkChoices.

However, I have a sneaking suspicion that Gillard is so in it waste deep surrounding climate change, her position is ideological. I say, 10/10 Prime Minister for having a view and sticking with it.

Everyone in the community wants less pollution. When I was campaigning in 2007 and 2010, most people have said pollution worries them. But people don't want a great big new tax to pay for it, and they don't want an assembly telling them how they should swallow the next system lock-stock-and-barrel.