Even the revered Professor Garnaut is critical of Labor's clowning and has called for a more appropriate, serious approach to the carbon tax. (from today's "The Australian").
When in Office, Tony Abbott should remove the carbon tax but leave the architecture in place (set the carbon price to $0). That way we can see what the major economies do and react quickly as necessary after taking into account our own implied carbon price from direct measures (solar panel subsidies for example).
No surprises Ms Gillard was going to defend the good Dr Emerson. Wonder how many dittys she's heard and in what circumstances?
Want me to quote a 100 Abbott slogans (dittys) while he is dressed up in workers clothing........vomit!
Be my guest. My favorite one was a couple of months ago when he compared Chifley's 'light on the hill' to Gillard/Thomson's 'red light on the hill'.
99 dittys/slogans to go. Abbott still standing. The song Labor should be singing is 'ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall'. At regular intervals, another future Labor leadership candidate falls off his or her perch. Can't imagine Dr Emerson having the letters PM after his name now, will be expecting him to bop up and down every time I see him.
The good Dr act was hot on the heels of Bill "I don't know what the PM said but whatever it was I agree with her and support her" Shorten. The next few months will see Greg "I will die in the ditch over voting against the carbon tax repeal after the next election" Combet fall off the wall.
Already gone are:
Simon "I hate Kevin" Crean,
Stephen "I hate Defence" Smith,
Stephen "I hate Telstra in my jackboots" Conroy
A party in self-destruct mode, destroying its future and creaming its next generation at the same time. Come back Paul Keating - all is forgiven. You're a perfect gentleman compared to this crowd. Al least noone could accuse Keating of lacking conviction, heart and passion.
You will truly know pain when Abbott becomes PM and all his cheer squad here disappear.
You will truly know pain when Abbott becomes PM and all his cheer squad here disappear.
Agree 100%. Keating had wit, intelligence, erudition, all of which are entirely absent in the Labor Party of today.A party in self-destruct mode, destroying its future and creaming its next generation at the same time. Come back Paul Keating - all is forgiven. You're a perfect gentleman compared to this crowd. Al least noone could accuse Keating of lacking conviction, heart and passion.
There was some discussion on Radio National this evening re the dropping of the floor price.No what Abbott will do is let it progress to a trading scheme which what it really is.
When in Office, Tony Abbott should remove the carbon tax but leave the architecture in place (set the carbon price to $0). That way we can see what the major economies do and react quickly as necessary after taking into account our own implied carbon price from direct measures (solar panel subsidies for example).
Australia's carbon tax starts generating $77.3 million per week from today. New figures from the Centre for International Economics show that Europe's emissions trading scheme - which covers 30 nations - has generated $23 million per week so far in 2012.
Australia's weekly carbon tax bill is more than three times greater than Europe's but we emit less than a quarter of Europe's emissions.
Agree 100%. Keating had wit, intelligence, erudition, all of which are entirely absent in the Labor Party of today.
Labor is right when they talk about about pricing carbon dioxide as the most efficient model. The problem with their's though it that it's purity is somewhat compromised by industry subsidies and a giant Green Energy slush fund. A lower starting price and less (or none) of the other nonsense would have at least given their argument some substance.It's an interesting 'middle ground' option, but one wonders whether the electorate will turn on Abbott for making it 'dormant' in this way.
Given all the effort going into building an 'Abbott-proof fence' around it right now, he might be thinking that the double-whammy of hibernating it and then losing a future election to allow it to be re-started is a bit of a self-inflicted wound.
Labor might also be willing to pass a bill with $0 carbon tax than repeal the carbon tax legislation. So there's the cue...
You will truly know pain when Abbott becomes PM and all his cheer squad here disappear.
I have no doubt, IFocus, I will be the first to bag off at Abbott and the coalition if in my opinion they stuff up.
I will be just as vocal against them as I am against labor, if they perform as badly. There is no way I will condone, what I see as poor government, no matter which side of politics they come from.
You can take that to the bank.
Has Greg Combet gone on behalf of Labor, begging bowl in hand and weak at the knees, to see Christine Milne over their carbon price ?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...put-on-the-table/story-fndttws1-1226417322929
She'll just slam her foot up his butt and be happy to count off a few more Labor voters.
Not to mention a knowledge of economics (even if imperfectly, unfairly and corrosively applied).
I still hate him, but acknowledge the important reforms he and Hawke implemented under the circumstances of the era. Even at the time I secretly admitted this to myself.
But this Labor gu'mint are muppets in the truest sense, with IQs (sans human intervention) to match.
+ 1. Not expecting much when Abbott becomes PM. Short honeymoon perhaps. He will have to be very surprising, and show form he hasn't yet shown, to end up with a legacy above the flatline.
A humble Turnbull, who has learnt to manage people and lower his own self-image, would do much better. Everything I've heard of him in the last 2 years suggests that, but no-one will even think of dumping a first-term PM.
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