Check out John Quiggin’s blog for some great posts on climate change and Australian and US politics… here, here and here.
In particular:
The main implication of the [PM's taskforce on climate change] Report is that we should have got started on all this ten years ago (or at least, back in 2003 when Howard killed the idea), and that we’ll now have a more costly adjustment path than if we had acted sooner.
And Howard is the one saying Labor will cost us more on climate change?
Filed under: John Howard, Politics, climate change
An
ABC news broadcast recently noted that the Australian Communications and Media Authority has found that in the lead-up to the Cronulla riots Mr [Alan] Jones* broadcast comments likely to encourage violence and vilify people of Middle Eastern background. They then report that our Prime Minister,
Mr Howard, ”says Mr Jones would never make prejudicial comments.”
The story then goes on to quote Mr Howard; “I don’t think he’s a person who encourages prejudice in the Australian community, not for one moment but he is a person who articulates what a lot of people think.”
But hang on a minute! What if what a lot of people think is prejudicial? Mr Howard, I think you hit the nail on the head!
*A popular Australian radio commentator
Filed under: John Howard, Politics
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