Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/26/2009 6:11:05 AM PST by Schnucki
Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore’s great big AGW conspiracy – just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would.
ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on a new Emissions Trading Scheme.
The Liberal Party is in turmoil with the resignations of five frontbenchers from their portfolios this afternoon in protest against the emissions trading scheme.
Tony Abbott, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Smith and Senators Nick Minchin and Eric Abetz have all quit their portfolios because they cannot vote for the legislation.
Senate whip Stephen Parry has also relinquished his position.
The ETS is Australia’s version of America’s proposed Cap and Trade and the EU’s various carbon reduction schemes: a way of taxing business on its CO2 output. As Professor Plimer pointed out when I interviewed him in the summer, this threatens to cause enormous economic damage in Australia’s industrial and mining heartlands, not least because both are massively dependent on Australia’s vast reserves of coal. It is correspondingly extremely unpopular with Aussie’s outside the pinko, libtard metropolitan fleshpots.
Though the ETS squeaked narrowly through Australia’s House of Representatives, its Senate is proving
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Wow, some Aussies really have guts and integrity. Congrats.
Note to the 5 Australian MPs: Good on ya!
So if they resign...then the power all goes to the Cap and Trade @$$holes???
that sounds more like an easy way out....why not go against rules of order and scream bloody murder in the meetings till they are thrown out...that sounds like the better solution.....
I haven’t been paying much attention to Australian politics. We really need to kick Malcolm out. So, how likely will we pass this cap and trade bill? I’m thinking of voting Liberal next election, to make sure this bill never pass. The poor will see their electricity bill skyrocket, all thanks to the Labor party, and eco fascist
no, resigning from portfolio position does not mean they’ve stop fighting. It just mean they could not ally with their party leader, by moving backbench, where they could still vote against the bill
So what does "resigning your portfolio" actually mean?
What do you predict will be next? Anyone happen to know how the Globull Warming Hoax is being reported in Australia?
Way more than you will find in US government!
You seem to be having a good time with this. :)
We can't dissolve our government that way, and few of our politicians fear their own constituents.
portfolio is like the field you be in charge with e.g Defence, Health, Education, Environment, Aboriginies Affairs, Foreign Affairs etc
from the article, it appears over half of the party members favor the bill, while the smaller half is against it This is bad. If everyone on the Labor party is for it, wont this pass fairly easily?
Indeed. We always knew Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ was junk science, now we have the evidence that the junk scientists knew it, too. Ha!
A since data’s being destroyed, possibly obstruction of justice...
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