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If the Government really wanted us to have an informed debate on a carbon tax, it would share with us what it knows. However, we know there are things the Government knows but isn’t letting us know.
The latest round of debate was sparked by Julia Gillard’s release of the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee’s paper on a carbon price mechanism.
Never mind that this committee is chaired by Gillard herself, or that membership of the committee was based on preconceived support for a price on carbon. Or that Gillard solemnly promised to us before the election that there would be no carbon tax under a Government she leads.
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Christmas is an odd time of year at Parliament. It’s a ghost town populated by a few grumpy staffers who inexplicably have to work and a few merrier journos who spend a rather long time at lunch.
But with such merriment one also has to keep an eye out for the Government dumping the trash when nobody is looking.
On Tuesday night at 6:30 the Government put out a press release quietly announcing that the controversial Men’s Health Ambassadors program, of which Julia Gillard’s partner was the marquee signing, had met for the final time and was being scrapped.
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Leonid says:
The comments above by IT’S JUST ME about the NSW musical chairs premiers are most unfair. Every member of the Sussex Street government thinks they are entitled to their turn as premier, so they can all score a flash pension and a chauffeur driven limo for life. Lucky taxpayers. And… Read more »
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IT'S JUST ME. says:
Ideas and manner of thinking between the NSW Ministerial individuals with a bourgeois ideology of modern politicians are all about power but choose to conduct them like power hunger Actors. Rather then getting on with the job of true representative government, a fixation of who should or should be the… Read more »
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