An update in The Australian today reveals the admission by Greenpeace campaign manager, John Hepburn that they did indeed apply for and receive a grant of $70,000 from the Rockefeller Family Fund for “research into the environment damage caused by the coal mining industry in Australia”.

Mr. Hepburn further admits that Greenpeace used the money in part to “draw up a strategy to undermine the local coal industry”.

We now know that in addition to this foreign funding for this campaign, it is also funded in part by our own Federal ALP government through the NGO’s listed, by Australian multi-millionaire Woods and by the Australian Greens who also wish to broaden the scope of this camapaign against ALL mining.

So who needs a “foreign power bogeyman” to blame when we have our own coalition government working against Australian interests?

It seems that Clive Palmer’s case for our government to resign has some merit. Will Queenslanders endorse that perspective or will the vanquished claim “it’s all about local issues”?

Not a good idea quoting from the Australian, they are proved to be biased and untruthful.
Tony is not in favor of supporting the auto maker, that is a surprise isn't it.

Well 579, I believe that maybe the grant to Holden is cheaper than the
dole that would have to be paid out if GM packed up and left as did
Mitsubishi. However is there ever an end to it ?
What about clothing and footwear manufacturers ?
If we could employ 100,000 people that might save a lot also.
We have got off stream but it is related to the stop exports.

Many years ago I half joking made the suggestion that we should saw
off the rest of the world and make everything here, except those
obvious items such as large jet aircraft.
We could use the money from food exports to pay for such items.
The trend to buying local has already started and will increase over the next 20 years.

I was laughed out of court of course, but not so many are laughing now.
In any case in the new energy regime, large jet aircraft will only
be conveying the very rich and politicians.
The era of mass international tourism is coming to an end.

CIA, sounds like arjay has been at it again. So what harm does an environmental assessment do. Doesn't the miners have to do their own independently.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/following-the-mining-tax-leader-20120323-1vp69.html
This link may well add to my view Palmer and his like, the Federal opposition, and too much of our self interested rich,lie to us.
A view I also hold about carbon tax and climate change deniers.
Ten years after Labor falls what will we make of this?

great amusments abound
blight has resigned[without a final vote count]
surely thats a simple default[lnp win]

clive looks like getting his free railway
the new lnp leader cant be seen being tied..any further by clive
recall ana blight got him a china contract worth 65 billion[but only under threat of courts

is there a list of
this serial pests complaints and collusions?

how rich was he?
before peter/wayne and blighty
gifted him fortunes?

recall when howard gave the new gst tax to the states
the states didnt need increase their mining royalties
now its time they were doubled

*just to prove lnp isnt his puppy
[lap dog..like the alp became]

a by election on ana's seat
NO WAY*[she resigned before what she said she wouldnt do]

how can a new alp[lap leader get the press attention
its the nat scam al ove4r again[only last time the nats [beurocrats]..took over the alp
now they took over the lnp

cause fat clive palmers daughters
are just too greedyfor money and power

remove gst
restore true royalty rates[and stop building them free pipelines and warves and rail etc[make them built their own export link]

cause where is that link leading
once the export stops

stop these rich fools
before they steal the lot

in twenty years
what has all the infastructure to nowhere got[for the kids]
railroads to no where[or a nice easy acces point
for invaders]

bah
the lot of em
BRING BACK BOTH HOUSES!

sack every public servant
not directly serving the public!

stop these
two party beuro-rock-rats