"The Carbon Assembly is simply a short term strategy aimed at kicking the climate change issue into the long grass for the length of the campaign."

Well, of course it is. When lots of people are urging you to do something which is stupid, you don't alienate them by telling them so; you pretend to listen, and smile and nod, and put forward a much cheaper alternative which will keep them occupied and fairly happy until they forget about it and take up some other fad. I agree it would be nice if the Copper Lady could actually say 'AGW is bunk and we will ignore it' but just now that would be electoral suicide. After another cold winter or two, we shall see. But in all seriousness, what else could she do that wouldn't play into the hands of the fanatics?

Jon J,
Bulls eye !

What would you have done with the Senate?

We need to answer that?

Blame and shame to us all who took ourselves and eachother for granted.

The Greens needed to snatch this opportunity with the ALP before Mr Turnbull watered-down the goal wholesale.

The hold is to do with 'mining and power companies", target them.

Fight a fight we can win.

Wake up and direct the show in the Australian bush. The farmers are hurting but they are many National and marginal. They know the miners, and multi-nationals are hurting them but with no real leadership... where do they go... but moan!

The Miner's... well many I expect may be Liberal and Foreign owned? There is a deep divide here that no one is addressing.

Be it Climate Change and ecology. Climate Change and air, water or food... we have a whole story to address and we are merely sprocketing.

We need to raise the bar on this debate. It is not about ETS numbers so much as our own social cohesion. Who can afford what and how that distributes....

Time to work.... and surround the real failure and figure strategies at the inter-locking sectors themselves.

Thoughts, common translation and, action!

We are only in denial while we carry-on a blame-game as if we are the self-rigous purists.

http://www.miacat.com/

We need to answer that?
miacat,
Why not ignore the Senate for a change, it might actually work. Jon J's statement encompasses all that goes on in politics so what is the point in having a senate & associated incompetent resource-wasting when the outcome is always the same ?