shifty&shadyminister,

I think you suffer from LNPDS.

That's LNP Deviancy Syndrome.

Don't worry, it's nothing that a bit of sexual misdemeanor won't fix.

Just pop into your local Parliament and pick up a copy of the LNP Sexual Misdemeanors Monthly Bulletin giving upcoming activities.

It'll blow your mind away! Become one of the fun bunch on the Canberra Circuit.

SR,

TF's quotes were in the SMH, and if you are whining about the source of my info, your quotes from Wikipedia are also nameless and largely uncontrolled.

The reality is that Flannery's predictions were deliberately alarmist and unreliable and effectively made him a joke.

Shadowminister,

Here is the Australian article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/the-mocker-tim-flannery-is-a-profit-of-doom-on-climate-scaremongering/news-story/eedf5871dca8a28f0257b8a2691d61eb

Here is the Wikipedia article which is well referenced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia

What part do you have an issue with?

For gods sake SR.

The Kidman drought, the Great Drought, the Federation drought [1901] was the same, or perhaps a little drier magnitude as the current drought, so nothing has changed.

Surely it is time you got a life old man, unless of course this rubbish is your lively hood.

SR,

I don't have a problem with either article. My comments were on the alarmist language by Flannery which is backed up by references to the left whinge Sydney morning herald.

The desalination plant is a prime example of Labor incompetence. At the time of tenders, it was clear that there were two components of the desalination system. The first was the network of tunnels and piping required to circulate the seawater and distribute the freshwater this would take about 2 years to build and cost about 50% of the entire project. The second portion was the actual RO plant itself which cost 50%, was modular and could be installed when needed. There was a suggestion that the first part should be built before the second part.

Of course, the Labor fwits placed the order for both parts and by the time the construction of the RO plant was started the drought was over, and by the time the plant was commissioned and running the dams were full and the RO plant was using coal-fired electricity to spill water at a huge expense.