Speculation, but I think it makes sense: http://blog.acooper.org/2009/12/speculation-the-real-villain-behind-the-clean-feed/ http://blog.acooper.org/2009/12/sp

Speculation, but I think it makes sense: http://blog.acooper.org/2009/12/speculation-the-real-villain-behind-the-clean-feed/ http://blog.acooper.org/2009/12/speculation-the-real-villain... tl;dr: Labor are using the filter as a political means to an end, to court the conservative Christian senator Steve Fielding's vote on the ETS (Fielding is more or less a climate change sceptic). Fielding, along with independent Nick Xenophon, hold disproportinate power in the Senate.