Australian conservatives have shown the way by dumping the party leader who was in favour of massive carbon taxes and replacing him with one who stated last month that AGW is “crap.”
This makes Malcolm Turnbull, the suddenly-ex-leader of Australia’s Liberal party, the first major political victim of the Climategate furore. And his replacement Tony Abbott, [...]
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Climategate claims its first big political scalp
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax
Friday, November 27th, 2009Australia 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 [...]
Bloody marvellous Aussies kill carbon emissions bill
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Hurrah, hurrah and thrice hurrah for Aussie common sense.
Australia’s Senate – the Government’s upper house – has just voted by 42 to 30 to defeat the cap and trade legislation bill proposed by their premier Kevin Rudd.
Why did those Senators reject Rudd’s scheme, despite their prolonged drought and their bush fires? Well some – the [...]