The assault on the environment has seemed to go unnoticed.

In quietly received announcements, we learned that renewable energy bodies are to fall under the axe. The following actions are part of Abbott’s war plan on our environment.

Scrapping the carbon price and any progress towards an emissions trading scheme.
No mining tax.
ARENA the Australian Renewable Energy Agency is to be abolished. ARENA chairman, Greg Bourne, expressed anger at the decision in the budget to rip $1.3 billion out of the agency and reduce it to "a branch of an agency in the Department of Industry with a ‘token amount’ of funds."
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation CEFC which the coalition has vowed to scrap.
In addition, climate change denier ex Caltex Australia Chairman, Dick Warburton, has been placed in charge of reviewing the renewable energy targets.
Abbott has all but dropped the pretense of Direct Action being a credible answer to climate change with its miserly puny laughable five per cent reduction target.
The CSIRO climate research has also taken cuts in the budget.
Paying polluters to not pollute with no penalties for pollution.
No more than $3.2 million will be spent on Direct Action whether it actually achieves its target or not

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Scrapping the mining tax is an assault on the environment?

Scrapping the $11bn carbon tax which was responsible for reducing emissions by 0.1% is the only smart move against a stupid tax that moves jobs and emissions overseas.

As for the rest of Juliar's taxpayer funded cheer squads, good riddance.

Why should the carbon tax eliminate carbon, you can't shut down coal fired generators. The only way to eliminate carbon is to go into renewables. Now that the generators are struggling Abbott wants to shut down the renewables. That is what happens when you have pay for an ear.

Shadow, there was contention within The Greens concerning the private donation by Graeme Wood of $1.6m in 2011. The party does not accept corporate donations and that was made clear to Mr Wood, who freely and openly made his donation as a private citizen, it was no more illegal that the donation I made to the party at the time. The only difference between the Wood donation and mine was the size.
The Liberal corruption is far more sinister, when senior Liberals have tried to circumvent the laws on political donations by developers. They set out to hide those illegal donations through a serious of sham identities. A big difference between the Wood donation, which has never been labeled illegal or corrupt by anyone except you, and the corruption of the Liberal Party, who's senior members have been hauled before the Independent.Commission.Against,CORRUPTION, please note the last word CORRUPTION, they are not investigating hair styles or fashion sense, they are investigating CORRUPTION, not in The Greens, but The Liberal Party.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-01-08/record-greens-donation-no-longer-a-wotif/1898404

By the way, What did you think of Barry's $3,000 Bottle of Booze, a trifle, a small recompense, or a simple act of CORRUPTION, Again where did Barry's downfall occur, in the lavatory at home? No, in the place where they investigate CORRUPTION!

Glad to see Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi have been correctly found to have acted corruptly, once again. With a recommendation of charges be laid against Obeid.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/icac-finds-eddie-obeid-and-joe-tripodi-corrupt-over-circular-quay-leases-20140605-zryap.html

Paul,

Who are you trying to kid. Graeme Wood as sole owner and Wotif are essentially the same. Would it then be OK for an owner of a development business to give a "private" check? Did your lawyers find this loop hole or did you think of it yourselves? I bet you got the donation done in a state that does not limit private donations either. You were just more successful at dressing up the donation.

I can imagine the discussion, a newbie says "We can't take this donation with out compromising our principles and looking like hypocritical sleaze bags" Milne and Rhiannon in chorus "get that idiot out of here."

Shadow, try as you might. There is no way you can deflect CORRUPTION within THE LIBERAL PARTY onto the party of honesty and integrity The Greens. Like a runaway freight train tearing down the tracks at 100 mph, heading straight for Betsy the Cow, waiting oblivious on the level crossing. The CORRUPTION train in the form of the ICAC is heading smack bang for the LIBERAL PARTY. Hopefully, the NSW Liberal Party wont survive the train wreck that will surly engulf it! We live in hope.