“Mr Hockey seems unaware of the global consensus regarding emissions reduction, the reality that emissions are now reducing in Australia and emerging green energy alternatives.”

Have you ever given even a passing thought to telling the truth, Alan?

You could not be unaware that the “green energy alternatives” are an absolute failure.

Germany, that great backer of green alternatives, has become painfully aware that they are non-viable nonsense. When 700,000 households had their power cut off for non payment, because the green energy generated huge power bills, the level of consciousness of the nation was sufficiently raised to recognise the Climate Change fraud for the debacle that it really is.

Australia is in better economic shape than a lot of the world. It had 11 years of good economic management, which included paying off the huge debt previously incurred by Labor and building of a healthy reserve, before the current clueless vandals lied their way into office, dissipated the surplus, and incurred the huge current debt.

The rest of the world had socialist government in the lead up to the GFC, and fared far worse than Australia, despite our continued Labor mismanagement. We would have fared far better under a government with an established pattern of good economic management, like the Coalition.

The US is a particularly sad case. It had the opportunity to have Romney as President, a man who made billions turning around bankrupt companies, whose talents were sorely need by his country, but it returned the Black Dunce for another term.

Try fiction writing, Alan, you have a deep aversion to facts.

The usual tripe from an author who is so unabashedly pro-ALP that no criticism of the most criticisable government in the history of Australia will ever be written by him.

AA's support of emissions trading is typical; this has failed everywhere; it has failed because it is the product of a scam and a lie, AGW. It is also a failure because green, renewable, sustainable, call it by whatever euphemism you like, energy does not work; it is as big a lie as AGW.

AA should listen to the Morici interview here:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/dow-jones-sails-to-new-record-high/4555052

And again it is NOT what Australia is now, it is what it could have been without the blight of the worst, most incompetent government in Australia's history making every wrong decision over the last 5 years.

But anyway, the fact that AA can still get a venue for his tripe is a credit to OLO and a stark comparison with what freedom of expression would be like if Gillard's minions win another term, and as can be gleaned now from the censorship which exists at the ABC. I bet Morici doesn't get a return invitation.

What moron outfit pays that mutt ?

Alan,

I read the titleand then the blurb,

'Australia’s next treasurer emerges from the shadows

The philosophy of the man who would be Australia’s next treasurer now revealed.'

and I thought great here's an article about someone Alan probably knows well.

Then you went and dissappointed me. You wrote about Joe Hockey instead of Bill Shorten.

You are full of surprises.

Not sure if it's liberal party staffers or the flat earth group that is trying to flame this post?

cornonacob,
Neither of them are "flaming" anything or anyone. It's sane people trying to get the too indoctrinated ones to wake up & get a life.