unless you are advcocating cuts in education and health you are just acting as an economic vandal David. Personally I think adults should pay for their own education and contribute towards health. Maybe all schools should be privatised as they get much better results with much less money. You seem to be inadvertley protecting the unions that turn the neck of Labour. I am very pleased you intend blocking the atrocious parental scheme. Mothers should be encouraged to stay at home and look after their kids for a few years. Have a look at New Zealand and you might learn a few things about turning Labours mess around.

Aidan ocean acidification is the biggest con yet. There are a dozen reasons why it just can't happen if global warming is happening.

Warming causes outgassing of CO2 from the ocean, just as it does with your can of coke. Anyone with even a smattering of science knows both simultaneously warming & acidification is impossible. Anyone who claims to be a scientist & claims ocean acidification is nothing but a self incriminated con man.

The oceans also sit in huge limestone basins. This huge bulk of limestone prevents the oceans ever moving anywhere near acid.

If you want to discuss things scientific, I suggest you get your information from somewhere other than a global warming propaganda site like the ABC, or the IPCC. Claiming the impossible as proof of damage caused by CO2 just makes you look an idiot.

Jardine, ignoring the needs of those without money is the problem.
So even the bank robbers prove that demand is not the same as willingness to pay.

What would I need to do to prove it to your satisfaction?

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Rhosty, why should the incumbent get advantages denied to superior startups?

All taxes can be varied.

I'm guessing your friend's going to Turkey, or perhaps Macau.

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Hasbeen, you claim an observed phenomonon to be impossible and say it makes ME look like an idiot?!?!?!

I think you may misunderstand what ocean acidification is. It DOESN'T mean the ocean won't continue to be less acidic tthan pure water; it means the ocean is more acidic than it was, which is a problem because it increases the solubility of the calcium carbonate shells of many marine creatures.

CO2 concentration in the air is more important than temperature in determining its solubility, at least over the concentration and temperature ranges we've experienced. And IIRC a higher pH decreases temperature sensitivity.

As I read angels and demons in David Leyonjhelm's article my mind could not help thinking what an abomination a bull without the testicular appendages is if one is trying to create a better world. Such an animal is called a bullock, and the only future it has in life is to be a hamburger. I have been at a meeting where the Senator spoke and he is impressive. However the institution of which he is a member is impotent because it is dominated by the legal profession and while he never as far as I can find aspired to be a lawyer he holds an LLB the degree that is a prerequisite for entry to the most destructive and parasitic profession in the world, and has been for around 2000 years if the words of Jesus Christ are any guide.

Two of the eight Demons, plaguing the Abbott Government hold LLB's but there are about 50 members of the Liberal Labor Coalition who also hold them, and for 62 years have used them in State and Federal Parliaments to make their services more valuable. There are six other Independent non LIB-LAB Senators and if these Senators could come together they could just become the Angels of Change, to deliver long lasting and enduring respect for the Institution that is the Parliament of the Commonwealth. In the Senators home State in 1970 the Australian Constitution, was repealed by lawyers in the New South Wales Parliament by s 6 Supreme Court Act 1970 ( New South Wales ) where lawyers in an unelected committee of nine, were given power to make Rules of Court to overrule any prior inconsistent Act, including the Australian Constitution. This was to protect Premier Robin Askin and Commissioner Allen who, if the Village Rumor Mill and Abe Saffron's son can be believed were in 1970 receiving $5000 a week each in cash to turn a blind eye on illegal grog, prostitution and gambling. Since then Sydney has been corruption central.
These eight Demons have the potential to be the Angels of Change by asking why?

There is a law in Tasmania called the Contravention of Statutes Act 1889 and if S 118 Constitution was effective then instead of being a cut cat, the Parliament of the Commonwealth should adopt this as law, update the penalty for a contravention from the Fifty Pounds it was in 1889 to $50,000 today, and specifically give half of that penalty to anyone who would sue for it as they could in 1889. A copy can be accessed here: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/num_act/tcosa188953vn3402/

The purpose and object of this Act was to maintain respect for the deliberations of the then highest Court in Tasmania its Parliament. S 15AA of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 ( Cth) directs the reader to put his mind to that purpose. Justice McHugh of the High Court in 1996 in Kable said the High Court of Parliament deserves respect, and has powers to punish for contempt. Today it enjoys none. The Real Demons in Australia are the people who are diverting revenue that used to go to the Crown, to enhance their private personal clients and themselves, and have used their positions of influence in the Parliament of the Commonwealth to ensure no one competes with them.

The greatest cartel still allowed to act as such, is the Legal Cartel, and despite the best intentions of the whole Parliament of the Commonwealth in a whole raft of legislation, they give the Parliament the Big Finger. It is fully integrated from the Police who act as scouts to drum up business through the solicitors Magistrates insist represent people if they want to object, through Magistrates and Judges right up to the High Court. If a person chooses to represent himself, the Magistrate usually just adds what the solicitor would have got to the fine.

S 118 Constitution should be invoked and the above law updated to reflect today's values, to restore respect and give the people value for money for the salaries paid to our Federal Members and Senators. Let our eight none aligned Senators become Angels of Freedom, and insist on this update to Commonwealth laws.

Hasbeen. One third of all carbon dioxide emitted by humanity has been absorbed by the world’s oceans. This is making them more acidic than they have been for tens of millions of years.
• One of the greatest impacts that Ocean Acidification is having is on reef building corals, which are known as a ‘framework species’. Without corals, reefs cannot exist. Ocean Acidification is already slowing their growth rates. Left unchecked they will soon stop growing and erode away.
• Direct effects on some important species of plankton and the sensitive larval stages of many marine organisms are now being reported in globally respected scientific literature.
• Ocean plankton provide 50% of the oxygen that we breathe. Due to Global Warming, that capacity to provide oxygen and support the fundamental food chains of the ocean has decreased by 6% over the last three decades.
• As oceans have warmed, oceanic nutrient deserts have expanded by 6.6 million square km’s over the past two decades.
• There are approximately 10,000 Coral Reefs and we are destroying one every other day.
• Coral Reefs are being lost more than twice as fast as the rainforests. Current estimates reveal that we will lose the other 50% over the next 40 years.
• The Great Barrier Reef generates over 6.5 billion dollars in tourism revenue and 63,000 jobs.
• Left unchecked Ocean Acidification could trigger a Great Mass Extinction Event. Growing evidence suggests that four of the five Great Mass Extinctions have been associated with rapidly acidifying oceans – due to spikes in the concentration of atmospheric CO2.
• The huge amounts of atmospheric CO2 being absorbed by the world’s oceans is making them more acidic than they have been for tens of millions of years.
• Coral Reefs provide habitat for at least a quarter of all marine species. Many of these face extinction if reefs disappear.