An ugly row has erupted over a campaign featuring two of Australia's favourite actors encouraging struggling families to accept a carbon tax.
Cate Blanchett and Michael Caton want taxpayers to back a plan similar to New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme.
The proposal has divided Australia with many saying it will take more than star power to convince them.
National’s Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce says “this is wrong because you are really going to hurt people Cate".
“You really are. If you bring this in you are really going to make people's lives' miserable."
While the Government is yet to announce the details of the Carbon Tax, drafts suggest it could cost the average Australian family up to $500 a year.
And Blanchett, who has reportedly earned more than $50 million from her acting career, is being criticised for being out of touch.
Blanchett has so far left her defence to co-star Michael Caton.
He appeared on Sunrise saying: “if you're not allowed to have money and have opinions, what's Malcolm Turnbull doing in politics in 2008 and what's Kevin Rudd doing in politics in 2010”.
And Caton has a powerful supporter in Prime Minster Julia Gillard who has welcomed the endorsement and began campaigning herself this morning.
“Every generation of Australians has wanted to bequeath the next generation a country better than we found it,” says Ms Gillard.
Unpublished estimates leaked from the International Energy Agency warn greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year.
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