"I just hope that our federal government monitors sites such as this one AND see what we see."

Ho,ho,ho...chortle, splutter...cough!

(Would go nicely with the new regime of censorship and secrecy)

Fan of that sort of thing, are you?

well, it seems you've elected an appropriate government, in that case.

Suppression of dissent for everyone!

: )

Dear Poirot,

You're absolutely spot on and there are quite a
few concerned journalists and political commentators
who are telling us the same thing.

The abolition of the Climate Commission is one example
that's given. Yes, it was an election promise but
the fact that the Coalition scheduled it right at the
top of their first term agenda tells us just how
influential the climate sceptics in the Liberal Party
have become. We're told that "the war on science is just
getting started."

Shooting the messenger, or the very least controlling the
message seems to be the general theme of the new
Coalition government.

The new Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has stated that
he will withhold critical information on boat tow-backs
and asylum arrivals ostensibly for "operational" reasons.
Apparently informing Australian citizens about the arrival of
seaborne asylum seekers, as Labor did, is now merely helping
the people smugglers.

Commentators remind us that "this didn't seem to worry Scott
Morrison when he was in opposition as Shadow immigration
spokesman. He liked to drive a big truck around marginal seats,
advertising the number of boats that had turned up on
Labor's watch. He'd give TV interviews on the subject at every
opportunity. Now in government his conversion from valor to
discretion is complete."

@Foxy,

<<The abolition of the Climate Commission is one example...Shooting the messenger, or the very least controlling the message seems to be the general theme of the new Coalition government>>

Total and utter BS. The Climate Commission was nothing but the propaganda arm of the the AGW church.

Dear SPQR,

You have to realise that The Australian, The Daily
Telegraph and others in the Murdoch fold misrepresented
key facts from leaked copies of the draft IPCC report
and left out many others.

You need to broaden your reading.

Voters need to face the challenges before them and hold their
leaders to account not close their eyes and try to extract
themselves from the messiness of political reality.

Dear Foxy,

<<You need to broaden your reading>>

Aah, therein lies my fault. I read tooooooo widely. You see, I read all the Climate Commission predictions, you know, all that stuff Flannery said about our dams drying up, and all that stuff that Peter Garret said about 6 metres of water invading out homes --and foolish me I did a bit of further reading, some fact checking!

If I had just been satisfied to keep my nose glued to the Climate Commissions latest prophecies of doom and gloom, and not worried about its veracity I might still be a true believer --just like you.And I'd likely be still singing it's praises --just like you.

Foxy, "Voters need to face the challenges before them and hold their
leaders to account not close their eyes and try to extract
themselves from the messiness of political reality"

Translated, "The voters cannot be trusted to get it right".

Nothing totalitarian in that, much. LOL

When the revolution comes, eh Foxy?

But wait a bit, those $$millions of taxpayers' money wasted on the victim industry and multiculturalism will dry up and your local Centrelink Office will close.

That would be a Pyrrhic victory and catastrophic for the whinging Left. Not that they would suffer long, being the first that are put up against the wall and shot, I believe.