Abbott’s Australia is like a ship without a rudder. Policy laden with barnacles, and cigar smoking fat cat’s.
2014 was ragged and torn with self confessions, backflifs, and watered down compromises, but it’s steady as she goes we can only hope we don’t drown in a tsunami of debt.
If we manage to stay upright in 2015, with a new budget due in may we can only hope and pray for different authors to guide us through the hazards we are headed for.
Calmer waters are not due until November 2016, if we can survive a never ending battering from relentless and uncaring higher-achy who are in charge of the good ship lollypop

You may of noticed I said Pollution not carbon , This focus on carbon is killing the whole debate, Let's see if any of you skeptic's can deny we have pollution problems, Air/Water land.
I am talking about lost opportunity world wide we had a start and we blew it.
So focus on calling each other idiot's I for 1 know 100% We have Deep rooted Pollution Problems Do any of you deny this ?

As for Mr Abbott all I can say is I told you So When he first ran for office, You voted for him , Since then We have lost so many Job's, upset so many neighbor's and now he is selling out the country on free trade deals.
His one Claim to fame is stopping boat's, He is using the NAVY Do you guy's understand the cost involved in this the total waste of resources to do this I guess not, We need a dedicated Coast guard for this operation to be even slightly viable, It's like using a nuclear bomb to hammer a nail in. But go on and argue about Carbon it is all you guy's seem to do Around and around in circles

Atman, those who criticise China's construction of coal fired power stations usually use it as an excuse to do nothing, and conveniently ignore the fact that China was shutting down old power stations much faster than building new ones. And they're investing more in renewables than anyone else.

I'm no fan of the Chinese government, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the things that they got right. They are competent economic managers, and when they decide to do something, they get it done.

BTW it wasn't going greener that almost sent California broke.
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plantagenet,
"Funny that the types who praise China's climate change Declarations (who don't study the Actions) are the types who praised Mao's 'quaint Asian Communism'"

Pensioners?

Hi Aidan

Definitley.

Pete

The claim Abbott is on his own in relation to climate change doesn't stack up with the facts. The repeal of the carbon tax bought Australia in line with the US and Canada, the two countries most similar to us.
We maintain a commitment of a 5% cut in our carbon emissions which is more than China or the US, even after Obama's agreement with China.

Our resources should have been our nest egg for future generations to draw upon for the extras in life most of us wish fir, but simply can't provide for ourselves. Instead, they have become the very back bone of our survival fir the day to day needs of the people and, they are struggling to now do that.

When you see wages fir say electricians go from $27 per hour around 1999, to upwards od $250 K per year,and working only six months at that, something had to give.

We have simply allowed ourselves to become non productive and over paid to the point whereby there is no return. Welcome to our new world, one where we take as much as we can, for as little effort as possible.

If only it were sustainable it would be the prefect fairy tale.

God help us if we either loose mining, or allow some within our ranks to chase it from our shores because if we really want to taste tough times, this is the way to do it.

While the Chinese might be buying the farm now, given time we will be begging them to take over because we won't be able to afford the costs.

As for Abbott, I'd like to see him with the billions to spend that were wasted by Labor.