The Australian Parliament has formally dispensed with the carbon tax after the Senate voted 39 to 32 in favour of its abolition.
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After two weeks of negotiations, and several false starts, the Abbott government achieved its long-held ambition on Thursday morning to axe the tax, to applause from government senators.
Passage of the legislation delivers the policy on which the government staked an election campaign, which ushered Prime Minister Tony Abbott to the head of his party, and which helped to kill the leadership of former prime minister Kevin Rudd and former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull.
The Abbott government clinched its victory after a rocky two weeks trying to wrangle the new Senate and an unpredictable crossbench.
Only Labor and the Greens voted to block the repeal. The government and the other crossbenchers have combined to pass it.
That is, all the other crossbenchers except Nick Xenophon, who has been unwell and is not in the chamber.
Emotions ran high in the senate on Thursday.
Greens leader Christine Milne's was emotional when she spoke in the Senate.
"This is a critical moment for our nation ... the vote of every person in this Senate will be the legacy of their political career ...
"A vote for the abolition of the Clean Energy Package is a vote for failure, because it is a recognition that the Parliament doesn't want to face up to the four to six degrees of warming that is the trajectory we are on as a planet.
"They don't want to face up to what is intergenerational theft."
Labor's Lisa Singh addresses the chamber, as it was poised to repeal the carbon tax.
"This is a fundamental moment in Australia's history... We are about to devastate the future of this country," she says. Labor stands by the science ... Labor will not stand with the government on this."