579, "Makes you wonder what Abbott has been talking to the Chinese about" yes, and its not the menu "I'll have a Combination Chop Suey and a large Fried Rice." Can't trust Abbott not to sell off more of the farm. As for China wanting Northern Australia to become a "Special (Chinese) Zone", defiantly not on, I can't see any major political party in Australia even suggesting that. little own supporting the idea, the Australian people wont wear it! But, then again when it comes to money we can't trust Abbott and his cronies on anything, can we.

Asked if direct action was preferable to an international emissions trading scheme, Mr Abbott said: ''There is no sign - no sign - that trading schemes are increasingly being adopted. If anything trading schemes are being discarded, not adopted.

In the US, he said the recently announced emissions limits on coal-fired power plants - expressed as targets imposed on the states by the Environment Protection Agency - would likely lead to more states adopting emissions trading to deliver required cuts.
''Apart from Australia I don't think any other country has plans to unwind an emissions trading scheme. That assertion they are being discarded is incorrect,'' Mr Bhavnagri said.

''In the world's two biggest economies - and the world's two biggest emitters - we are seeing quite a deliberate move towards carbon pricing and emissions trading, not away.

paul1405: Jayb, can I take it from your above comment that you are still wavering a little when come to deciding to VOTE GREEN?

Year right! I can't vote LNP or ALP, They're only interested in lining their own pockets. I can't vote Palmer because he's only interested in getting huge concessions for his enterprises & I can't vote Green because their all mentally incompetent. It's a dilemma.

579: Remember a couple of weeks ago the Chinese said they would like the northern parts of au to be a special zone, where they could bring in their own labour for projects.

I suppose the Greens could claim sexual bias against them because they all act like little girls.

Then they would say they own that part of the World, like they claim every other part of the world. Naturally they would station part of their Army there. Just to protect their interests, of course.

I see that Shadow Minister has *STILL* been unable to address Foxy's post from many pages ago, regarding the *THIRTY* broken promises from ToneLIAR.

Come on Shadow Minister, let's see you take those *THIRTY* lies, one by one, and show us why each and every one is not an unmitigated lie and deception of the Australian voters by your Lord and Savior Tax'Em Tony. Too hard for you? Seems so.

Yep, ToneLIAR is the most lying and deceitful PM in Australian political history, by FAR.

Loudmouth,

".... But we should be silent when a woman is put under the microscope for her fertility, or for the - presumably unjustified - high position she may have attained. Or, more historically, a man compares a woman to jar of mussels.

Yes, the left will sit back and say nothing."

What do we then make of Ms Credlin "putting herself under the microscope for her fertility"... using her "high position" in order to promote her boss, Tony Abbott, for political purposes?

Should you condemn Ms Credlin also for parading her fertility issues in the media as election fodder for the Liberal Party?

(I see the great and celebrated defender of feminist principles, Loudmouth couldn't resist another opportunity to mention "mussels"...how many times now - 6 - 7?)

poirot: Should you condemn Ms Credlin also for parading her fertility issues in the media as election fodder for the Liberal Party

I agree. It was Credlin who brought up the issue of infertility looking for the , "Woe is me," vote.

Personally I don't care or think it's any of my business whether or not a person can or can not have children, or has a disability or any other impairment. That's their individual problem & they have to deal with it in their own way without looking for sympathy or favour.

Who amongst us hasn't said at some time, something like, "What are you blind" only to find that the person was blind or something of a similar nature. I for one have probably on more than one occasion. You apologize but feel so stupid for days after.