Left wing pressure groups are well organised, wealthy, and clever. They are also very good teachers.
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Gillard’s promise of no carbon tax effectively removed this issue from the election debate. Without this promise it seems certain that the close balance of votes would have favoured the opposition. The attempt to now impose a carbon tax makes it difficult to perceive the promise of no tax as other than a deliberate lie calculated to deceive voters.
Gillard’s hasty marriage of convenience to Brown gave her a political stay of execution and Brown a dowry of green-left goodies including the Greens’ monster tax on everything forever, which eventually would make Treasurer Wayne Swan’s mining shakedown look like a video rental late fee hike.
Wind energy and all the alternative energy projects are largely a waste of time. They are very expensive, they do not save carbon at anything like the levels claimed by wind advocates, and will cost jobs.
There's a new Gold Rush apparently going on in the literary world in the USA, and though it hasn't quite reached Australian shores yet, echoes of it are already echoing across the Pacific to us.
Aborigines mostly live on their land in remote parts of northern Australia. They live in a world bequeathed by the Whiteman’s dream of Aboriginal self-determination. They live blighted lives.
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Malaysia Did you know that the friendly Government of Malaysia treats Bibles as a threat to national security? We publish an appeal for tolerance from Malaysian Christians.
Amidst the media fear and hyperbole it’s hard to get a grasp on what’s really happening at Fukushima . John Timmer offers a lucid explanation.
Both Greg Combet and Bob Brown have been stressing how far China is ahead of Australia with carbon pricing. Brown quoted $15 a tonne of carbon dioxide while Combet was more modest at $8.
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