Archive for December 3rd, 2009
Abbott: the left misses the point
Posted by John, December 3rd, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Australian politics, Crikey
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The left is missing the point about Tony Abbott, and in demonising him lets Rudd Labor run free with its Howard-like policies. It also possibly opens up a space for anti-Catholic sectarianism. For example Guy Rundle in Abbott, God and the cosmopolitans in Crikey on Thursday argues: There are three dominant ideas of God in Christianity at the moment. […]
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Labor’s Emissions Trading Scheme again – why February?
Posted by John, December 3rd, 2009 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Australian politics, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Emissions Trading Scheme, Global Warming
Comments: 3
Labor is going to re-introduce the recently Senate rejected Emissions Trading Scheme Bill in February. What is going on? Let me hazard a guess. After the Liberal Party on Tuesday replaced Malcolm Turnbull with Tony Abbott, the Senate yesterday rejected the Labor-Turnbull Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Then it rejected the original Labor ETS, the one without the extra […]