Don't be silly Mac.

This noisy rabble are the academics, unionists & dole bludgers, nothing to do with workers. They are too busy earning a living & supporting your rabble.

Q, If Abbott or any other conservative makes the occasional, public speech, slip up? & A, then that suggests to me that he has spent less time in front of the mirror practicing lies than the average closet communist politician.

"Critical Theory" one is tempted to ask. Q, What is the theory? A, the theory is to criticise, through unrelenting, destructive criticism the closet communist hopes to bring conservatives down.

Other than Graeme Campbell & Bob Kernohan, have their been any honest people in left wing religion, in the land of OZ, over the last half century?

Rhian, well said.

I don't have enough exposure to twitter to have much opinion about it. I'm pretty strongly of the view that no side if politics has any kind of monopoly on abusive behaviour, lying, focus on the personalities etc. Both sides seem to claim it's the other and when the abuses of their own side are pointed out will claim they can't see it. A very common trait on OLO?

Sometimes it should be about character, those who seek to "lead" should have character we can respect, something I don't think we have had for a long time at state or federal level.

My biggest frustration with this whole debate is the massive double standards that so often rule. Coalition supporters focus on Gillards deception about the carbon tax followed by a an acceptance of Abbotts breaking of pre-election committments (even if they pretend he has not done so). The focus on Abbotts budgie smugglers by those who were so offended when Gillards appearance was commented unfavorably by opponents as a couple of examples.

R0bert

Abbott said that climate change was “absolute crap”, so ant’s quote was almost right. Abbott, of course, is completely right. Ant is a supporter of the AGW fraud, and is routinely asked for any science which shows any measurable effect of human emissions on climate.
There is no such science, but rather than admit that AGW is a fraud, she evades replying by asking irrelevant questions about ice melting in the Antarctic, the same ice in which a ship carrying a group of fraud-backing scientists was firmly stuck, despite their assertion that the ice was melted.

Abbott understands that the electorate has been fooled by the AGW fraud-backers, and will carry out the wishes of the electorate. It is to be hoped that he will find a way to reverse the duping of the electorate by the Climate Change fraud.

I request that ant supply a reference to any science which shows any measurable effect of human emissions on climate. Without such science, the assertion of AGW is baseless

Leo, the science is well established; you don't accept thats the case.
You haven't answered the question I have asked elsewhere a couple of times:
"You didn't answer my question Leo about thermokarst lakes, shrubs, and thermokarst failure. If you cannot give any reasonable answer then it just shows that you write rubbish, Leo."
Just commenting that something is fraudulent is meaningless; you need proof.
The examples of thermokarst lakes and thermokarst failure are examples of climate change happening. But, prove otherwise, Leo.

Leo,

The verbatim quote was "The climate change argument is absolute crap" which is very different to saying climate change is crap which is the lie the left perpetuate.