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For voters, the tax detail is Labor's last chance

And trying to keep the conversation lively around the bar of the Cooma Hotel.

Outside, the cold winds have sent the mercury plunging towards zero in this NSW alpine town. Inside this 150-year-old pub, however, the bar-room talk is heated and peppered with blue-collar profanities.

The verdict on Julia Gillard's carbon tax is overwhelming and blunt.

Not one of the dozen or so drinkers spoken to by News Limited supports the Government's plans to cut greenhouse pollution by putting a price on carbon.

Instead, they only see the negatives in a carbon tax, fearing it will add to their already rising energy bills and place upward pressure on weekly living costs.

The co-manager of the Cooma Hotel, who grew up in the inner-Sydney suburb of Marrickville, says he was once a Labor man "through and through - but not anymore".

Like thousands of voters, Mr Antoun cites the Prime Minister's "broken promise" on a carbon tax as a prime reason for turning off Labor.

That underscores why tomorrow's carbon tax announcement is so crucial.

The fate of the Gillard Government rests on whether the PM can convince middle Australia that the clean energy package - the carbon tax and all the other policy add-ons - are in the nation's long-term interests.

The PM's credibility, the (previously) high approval ratings that convinced Labor MPs to elevate Ms Gillard into the highest office in the land, has been shredded. And there are two key reasons why - voters hated the way she got rid of Kevin Rudd, and they detested the manner in which she lied over a carbon tax.

This is the challenge facing the Government. It will impose a carbon tax - of around $23 a tonne - on the 500 "biggest polluters" in Australia, starting July 1, 2012. A full emissions trading scheme - of the kind recommended by Kevin Rudd before he got cold feet in 2010 - will come into effect from 2015.

Generous compensation will be offered to pensioners and lower-income families, with the Government hoping - praying - it can convince ordinary voters that the pain of the carbon tax will be easily absorbed into the family budget.

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