Abbott's first carbon tax bill defeated in senate

It's not lookin g good in the senate at the moment for Abbott, with the upper house defeating the first gov legislation to repeal the carbon tax:

The first of the Abbott government bills to scrap the carbon tax has been defeated in the Senate. 

Legislation to dismantle the Climate Change Authority was knocked back in the upper house on Monday by Labor and the Australian Greens. 

It is the first bill in a package designed to unwind the Gillard government’s clean energy laws, and has been the subject of protracted debate in the Senate. 

The bill was amended by Labor senator Louise Pratt, who wanted to include the Senate’s concerns about what impact scrapping the authority could have on independent climate science. 

But a government effort to pass the amended bill at its second reading stage was defeated 38 votes to 32. 

It will be three months before the bill can be reintroduced to the Senate, and a second rejection would be a trigger for a double dissolution. more

Of course that may change after the new senate comes in, unfortunately for Abbott that's not until June. Even more unfortunately for Abbott, the new senate numbers are still up in the air as Western Australia has to go back to the polls again for the senate vote. Which may be a disaster for Abbott as the previous senate wins for the WA Lieberals were close ones, and now his gov's election popularity has completely disappeared. Think I heard on the news yesterday that all it will take is one Lieberal senator to lose and Abbott will be fucked. 

Come on WA, save us from this Abbott wrecking ball!

Personally I'd rather the senate block supply of legislation and we can all be rid of this Abbott nightmare in three months.