The Bolt judgment promotes that most nasty form of censorship, self-censorship, whereby a writer is not restricted so much by a clearly defined law, but by the fear of an ill-defined legal entanglement. Australia’s film censorship works this way.

Under Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard the ALP’s values have become a complete mystery. Survival, at any cost, appears to be their most urgent interest. But is survival a core value?

You would imagine that with something like 70% of the electorate being opposed to the New Carbon Tax there might be a tendency for federal members of the ALP to at least consider expressing in parliament, the wishes of their electorate.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign is not a grass roots movement populated by rednecks, the mob or the rabble from the streets. It is a political campaign that sprang from intellectuals and academics from the Left.

With Julia Gillard fully supporting Craig Thomson, and presumably the gang from Victoria, this might be a good time to ask her about Labor’s “core values”.

The refusal by the media and Members of the Federal Parliament to aggressively question the secrecy surrounding who is on the list of the so-called 500 top “polluting” companies, raises serious doubts about the quality of scrutiny being undertaken in regards to the proposed Carbon Tax.

Andrew Bolt: “The one thing that strikes me as a kind of outsider-insider is that so many mainstream political interviews are based on a pretense.”

It seems incredible that our parliamentarians are going to vote on a tax on which they haven’t been clearly or officially told as to who the targeted carbon-tax-payers will be.

Not to be outdone as the world’s leading journal of doomsday climate snuff-stuff, the Guardian published a new map of the world showing the good, the bad and the ugly of world polluters: Australia “very poor”, Indonesia “very good”.