Yes! Pleadsus, correct in what you say on overpopulation, having returned to India last year after 20 years, nothing in the population stakes had changed since the first visit, the beggars, the cripples lying in the middle of the road wanting money, poverty everywhere, their rich do not seem to care and I felt it was not my problem at all, it all comes back to what is in ones pants, if you want to fornicate and have six kids that you cannot afford for goodness sake do not have them, of course we have the male mentality in third world countries to make every bang a winner. One also notices the refugees are breeding rather well at Inverbrackie S.A. and possibly will continue to do so, one would think they would wait until they have a clearance to become citizens.
Climate change has just been discussed on OLO with the for and against, so will not get involved this time, I do agree with the writer silence seems to be the order of the day within the Abbott Government, the media have obviously been silenced.

*Prepare for a wave of professional liability lawsuits to try and recover some tiny portion of the billions wasted on uneconomic renewables.*

These 2 million households obviously do not understand that reducing your power bill to zero or having a credit is a fools game, is uneconomic and it does not produce any of that lovely CO2 that is so good for the environment.
*Giles Parkinson, REneweconomy 13.01.14
Clean Energy Regulator says Australia now has 2 million small scale renewable energy systems – enough to power Perth, Hobart, Darwin and Canberra.*
Australia has now installed more than 2 million small scale renewable energy systems – reaching the target just eight months after the country achieved its first one million rooftop solar systems.

I think most people, politicians as well, have come to the realization that it is pointless trying to save the worlds climate from little ol Ozland where we as a nation would hardly be missed if we were to turn the machines off and put out the lights.

Sure there is a case for action on climate change, but it's a global problem and as such must be fought with a global solution, otherwise we simply run the risk, as proven, of making our industries so anti competitive that they (industries) are left with little choice other than to pack up their bat and ball and go elsewhere.

Furthermore, you know you are push it up hill when the likes of China, a huge omiter pays a few dollars per ton on carbon, and we, a minute omitter in comparison pay $23 per ton and growing.

We have not yet seen the effects of this huge impost on our transport sector yet, due to kick in 1 July this year. Brace yourselves!

Well, I guess it had to happen, the deniers are out there in full swing and with such intelligent comments, very constructive, Your master will be pleased with your performance. The thing that gets me are the names... cohenite, plerdsus, SPQR, Curmudgeon, Hasbeen (that's interesting) runner, ChrisPer... Are you ashamed of your given names or just hiding in the shadows? The only genuine comments are from Robert LePage but then that is a real name. Does this sort of spin doctoring pay well, I wonder? If the answer that is yes then Abbott must be running scared. I also think comments about Tasmanian people being kooks are so passé and factually incorrect Hasbeen. I did stand and fight with thousands of hard working people who do have real jobs and we did overturn what was a very destructive and corrupt situation and restored normality... And democracy. You see, sitting in comfortable offices in big cities you tend to take things fore granted. You go to work, you play and you know that tomorrow you have a job, you won't get chemically doused or get your house torched by a mob. You won't get sued out of existence for saying things like you have been saying in this thread. That is because you have, for want of a better word, democracy. That did not apply in Tasmania as little as two years ago. I was proud of what those people achieved and I still am. You can take a look for free by checking out this link: www.theage.com.au/tv/Environment/A-Worm-in-the-Apple-4262515.html

And, by the way, it has gone very quiet on climate change.

Labor and the Greens are going to cop a flogging in the forthcoming Tasmanian State election.

*Labor and the Greens are going to cop a flogging in the forthcoming Tasmanian State election.*

As they did in the federal election and boy are the people going to be p&^%*d off in the next 3 years.
Just think about THAT when you vote for Abetz and his puppets.