The Honeymoon is over for this government . these ragtag politicians(humans) who have stolen power in this country have no idea what they are doing. These guys have known about climate change 25 years ago and have done nothing. For ten years Howard has refused to listen and its ratbags like him who should be held accountable for the suffering we are all living through now and in the future. Lack of policy regarding the environment as a whole is a crime against humanity. they continue to put there head in the sand and say allways what about australian jobs. this responce is so childish and neglagent because as these guys f about the drought grips australia more and more and jobs start to disappear in the bush, next it will be the great barrier reef gone, costing more jobs in tourism. We need a government with balls and a vision of the future very badly not a government who is reactionary and in bed with the fossil fuel industry. Kim B should make Climate change his political platform as this is not just about us but about the globe and our future as a speices on on it. The most inportant issue in the history of humankind, we don't need right wing monkeys hanging about handicapping reaction to this issue. sorry you real monkeys out there.

To 'thehoneymoonisover'

I am in complete agreeance with you except maybe Id like to think that it is not too late.
That we still can make a concerted effort and bring pressure to bear on those who dont comply and make at least the minimal chamnges required, domestically and globally.

I have previously started 2 threads in relation to this very subject and barely a nibble.

It is amazing to me how timing is everything and how we are only ever giving any thought at all to the health of our planet when the media decides to make it a newsworthy issue.
If that is the case and our thinking on this doesnt come to the forefront of our daily lives..ie: wether to walk or cycle to work today.Wether we need to have all the lights on in the house at once.
Be more conscious of water wastage..recycling ,plastics,all fossil fuel emissions,and on it goes,....if this thinking doesnt become as automatic as brushing our teeth..
The end of our civilisation may well be nigh.We ignore at our own peril.

Lets not wait for politicians to guide us..start now, at the veryday level and be instruemental in saving our own plante...

Politicians DONT CARE....lets be clear about that.Believe it and move on.

"it is amazing to me how timing is everything and how we are only ever giving any thought at all to the health of our planet when the media decides to make it a newsworthy issue".

Indeed! 'the wag the dog' is a big problem.

I have an equally cynical take on how Hollywood cashes in on this 'WAG' with their regular role out of disaster movies that end in America saving the world or Americans being the only ones that survive.

John Wayne becomes a tree hugging hippie, role credits.

Rainer,your are not the first to make this observation.I've said a few times, "We are the Hollywood worshipers of image without substance" and there in lies our folly.

However,not all that is American is evil,as many assume.John Howard also,is not the evil meglomaniac that many of your ilk try to portray.The truth is often shades of grey and compromise that finds mutual effort and respect in a common goal.Just snyping from the sidelines without positive imput,does nobody any good.

Arjay, my apologies, I will endeavour to cite you (along with Noam Chomsky, Stuart Hall, Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman) the next time I make any remarks about cross-overs and lending between Hollywood mythology and American nationalism.

I will also try my hardest to adopt your ideological purity of thought in all matters from now on. Please forgive me for any nasty things I have said about your beloved John or George. They are doing a wonderful job leading us all. Where they are leading us I do not know. Blind faith feels so good.

I was hoping someone else would have pointed out an obvious overview of dickies statement above; amongst the typical Bureaucratic wave length of cold meaningless garble not to mention questionable assumptions, the issue of licenses to pollute, “Or cash for trash, N S W Environmental protection Racketeering Charges; or if you want to pollute, give me some loot”.
Yes it does sound like some politicized form of prostitution, but is anyone surprised?

Although it is the inane attitudes of bureaucrats that could think up new ways to loot so they have perpetual trough of money to snort from; instead of applying science to alleviate an existing problem.
Don’t miss read that, I disagree totally that man has anything to do with global warming for a start, that problem emanates from cosmological forces engaged in their cyclic predictable event; A simple scientific fact that Mummy Nature spits out more Pollutants per day than mankind does in a century.

Unless some evolutionist is going to tell me The Neanderthal Farts were so vial, creating green house gasses to global warming to melt the Ice. Then it is good I still have a sense of humor.

Pollution is only killing us; I am thinking now, most politicians are indeed inept, it is seemingly obvious they are only a statistical vanguard out side of an N G O’s (Bureaucrat) comfortable commissar/Fascist who are and never become accountable;
While we choke to death, they immerse themselves in the ill begotten wealth of others by statutory theft and deception.
We might be able to sack a politician come election time, but the same old creepy sneaky overpaid unintelligent Looter- crat remains in place dithering and conspiring to find new ways to confuse and loot you of your contributions and your worth.