Julia Gillard, Australia’s new PM and the first woman to hold the top job, has a shortish to do list of big problems to fix prior to the Federal election, which is expected to be held in August of this year.

One of her biggest challenges will be deciding whether Australia needs a great big fax to track and reduce carbon emissions.

It looks as though faxes will be a hot election issue.

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