Look to Spain for more rain

IT’S been a good year for the Spanish.
First, Raphael Nadal won Wimbledon, the nation celebrated its first World Cup win, and Alberto Contador took out the Tour De France.
And Greens candidate for Flinders, Bob Brown, believes it’s not just on the sporting stage that Spain demonstrates its supremacy.
Mr Brown, who lives in Rye, said Spain was a world leader when it came to carbon reduction initiatives, and Australians could follow Spain’s example.
“Spain has introduced a low carbon initiative that Australia might well consider adopting,” Mr Brown said.
The system Australia should take on, Mr Brown said, was a shopping initiative that allowed customers to check out the carbon footprint of products before they bought them.
The carbon footprint rating would consider elements such as packing and transporting costs and allow customers to choice products that would in turn reduce carbon emissions.
“The Greens are the only party to put a price on carbon and offer solutions as to how a low carbon future might be achieved.
“The major party policies in this respect come nowhere near addressing this most serious of problems,” he said.
Liberal MP Greg Hunt currently holds the Flinders seat with an 8.3 per cent majority. Along with Mr Brown, other competitors are Labor’s Francis Gagliano-Ventura and Family First’s Reade Smith.