Sydney Morning Herald: IS THE emissions trading scheme the republic issue revisited: a policy the public supports in theory but not in practice? The federal government’s ETS, like the republic in the late 1990s, almost became a reality but fell short because of a split among the believers. Two months ago, Liberal senators Judith Troeth and Sue Boyce voted with the ALP in support of the government’s scheme. If the five Greens senators, who say they support an ETS but want something more extensive, had …