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Note: ABC Breakfast host Virginia Trioli made this “you’re crazy” hand twirling gesture after interviewing Senator Barnaby Joyce on the issue of the ETS. Trioli obviously didn’t realise the cameras were still on. She later rang Senator Joyce to apologise, he quipped to the Punch that he couldn’t quite hear because he had been placed in an asylum.

Apparently some television commentators think that I’m the insane one.

Virginia Trioli mocking Barnaby Joyce with the universal sign of crazy

Maybe that explains the place where I work.

Obviously, if I’m not me who am I?

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  • Milene says:

    08:08am | 07/02/12

    Moz – Or will small percudors be exempt? That’s the obvious hole that I see, where the tax only applies to businesses over a certain size and thus many or most farms are exempt. Along with 20% of our emissions….The cost of the tax will be passed on to everyone.… Read more »

  • Paul says:

    04:09pm | 07/11/11

    Have any of you conservatives actually read about the direct action plan?  The majority of economists have said it will be more expensive, and scientists have said it will be less effective than the ETS.  We have Tony Abbott pushing a government interventionist policy that Gough Whitlam would have been… Read more »

 

If Malcolm Turnbull achieved nothing else yesterday he may have at least shut Wilson Tuckey up for five minutes.

They're alive. Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop emerge from the Beaconsfield mine

Yesterday’s five hour joint party room meeting was a victory for Malcolm Turnbull but it was one that doesn’t leave a great deal of time for basking in the afterglow.

Malcolm Turnbull and Ian MacFarlane now have the right to sit down and discuss a set of agreed amendments with Penny Wong and Turnbull’s leadership is safe until at least the end of the year.  And while it’s not much Malcolm Turnbull will take any small mercies at the moment and they’re ones he has fought hard for.

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  • BT says:

    09:42pm | 19/10/09

    @ chemist, You’ll forgive me for taking the United Nation’s perspective over yours I’m sure. Read more »

  • chemist says:

    07:40pm | 19/10/09

    BT the whole vegan/vegetarian environmental argument is complete nonsense. Livestock are simply replacements for the vast wild herds that once existed. Water vapour is responsible for 96% of the greenhouse effect. CO2 is responsible for less than 3%. The TOTAL human contribution (from all activities including agriculture) to greenhouse gases… Read more »

 

UPDATE 7:30 PM The Coalition has not agreed to a vote on the alcopops legislation in this sitting, so the earliest it can be approved is August. Yes the ridiculous dance of the alcopops goes on for another few months.

While the Opposition has been struggling with utegate it has quietly embarked on a big policy backflip.

Not because the policy itself is major but after almost a year of calling this 70% tax increase on alcopops the Great Satan the Opposition – or at least some of them - have decided to pass the tax.

Hopefully today there will be a vote on the alcopops tax and it will end this painfully long saga, whose ability to dominate national debate has merely highlighted how seriously we take getting pissed.

Leader of the National Party in the Senate Barnaby Joyce has told The Punch that no Nationals Party Senator will be voting for the tax and that one of his main considerations will be the Bundy drinking and producing voters of Queensland.

“No National Party Senator will be voting for the tax. That means abstaining or crossing the floor. We don’t want a bun fight over it, but we won’t vote for it.”

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  • teddy james says:

    03:05pm | 25/06/09

    Great article. The Rudd Government has dressed this up as a preventative health measure and it’s not. It’s a big fat greedy tax grab - the Labor Party’s forte. Given Kevin Rudd has hocked us up to the eyeballs in debt, the Libs probably didn’t have much choice but to… Read more »

 

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