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SYDNEY (AFP) – tone grapheme Cate Blanchett Tuesday defended her selection to face a crusade promoting the Australian government's copy tax, saying she backed state on status modify for her children's sake.

Dubbed "Carbon Cate" by the Sunday Telegraph, the person was attacked as existence a jet-setting, multi-millionaire who was discover of contact with mediocre Australians who fear a uprise in the outlay of experience from a toll on carbon.

"I'm not rattling astonied by the reactions from grouping on the added lateral of the debate. People are entitled to their opinion," said Blanchett, who was unemployed in one comment piece as "just added morally vain tone star".

The Oscar-winning actor, who has three teen boys with husband saint Upton, said there was a outlay to gild from copy pollution, and this was what she was aroused most as a mother.

"That's where it gets me in the gut," she told The Sydney Morning Herald.

"I can't look my children in the face if I'm not disagreeable to do something in my small artefact and to urge added people.

"Yes, I've been fortuitous in my career but that's no think not to defence up for something that I deeply believe in."

Blanchett's grapheme role in the newborn television campaign, which is funded by a alinement of unions and naif groups and urges Australians to "Say Yes" to a set on carbon, has become a national conversation saucer in the status debate.

Centre-right contestant cheater Tony Abbott used the celebrity publicity to move Prime Minister Julia Gillard in parliament on Monday.

"This is a maturity minister who's bright to listen to actors, but she won't listen to voters," he said.

Australians are among the world's worst per capita copy polluters and Gillard has proposed a set to be levied on field industrial polluters by July 1, 2012, with plans for a full emissions trading plot in three to fivesome years.

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