KRudd in Bali ...
See - The Australian - Bleak's Daily Cartoon Gallery.
Also see - Australia 'stalling Bali talks'.
Also see - Bali water privatisation plans.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:53 AM
Monday, December 10, 2007
See - The Australian - Bleak's Daily Cartoon Gallery.
Also see - Australia 'stalling Bali talks'.
Also see - Bali water privatisation plans.
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Mr Crean said the post-Kyoto agreement should lead to targets from developing countries and binding commitments from the developing world.
Useless.
China will ignore any targets arguing it needs to develop its economy.
11:36 AM, December 10, 2007
that's ok Rudd will then give them a strong talking to in mandarin and everything will be ok
11:53 AM, December 10, 2007
Excerpt from news.com.au:
Garrett dodges climate change questions
10 December 2007
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has spent his first day at the Bali climate conference dodging questions on whether Australia will support short-term targets for cuts to greenhouse emissions.
A draft declaration from the UN conference on the Indonesian island endorses cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent of 1990 levels for developed countries by 2020.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who heads to the conference tomorrow, has ruled out setting targets before he receives a report from economist Ross Garnaut on the impact of reduction targets.
Speaking after a meeting with former US presidential candidate John Kerry, Mr Garrett would not be drawn on whether Australia would support the moves.
Mr Garrett, who lost responsibility for climate change to fellow frontbencher Penny Wong in Labor's post-election ministry reshuffle, repeatedly refused to say today what Australia's position on the short-term targets was.
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5:40 PM, December 10, 2007
It seems that Prime Minister Rudd has had a reality check. It is not as simple because he has got to worry about what these deals will cost the average Mum & Dad back home in Australia.
It seems what John Howard was telling the community was spot on and this is a useless document and it will course hardship for us all.
One interesting push: There is a strong push to use gas power to make electricity in Queensland and we all know what comes up with that:- WATER!!
8:28 PM, December 10, 2007
Ladies and gentlemen, for 2 days only: The acting Prime Minister.
Excerpt from the Sydney Morning Herald:
Julia grabs the baton and marches into history
11 December 2007
FELLOW AUSTRALIANS: Do not be alarmed. From roughly midday today, the role of Australian prime minister will for the first time in our history be played by a woman.
Fireworks are not expected; the stockmarket is expected to remain stable, although a sharp spike in PM-T jokes is expected on the CGI (cheap gag index).
The lady herself, Julia Eileen Gillard, is expected to hold the office until Thursday night.
"I think it's probably a moment that many Australian women will probably stop and reflect on," she said yesterday.
"I think if there's one girl who looks at the TV screen over the the next few days and says 'I might like to do that in the future', well that's a good thing."
The prime ministerial mantle has only belonged to Kevin Rudd for a week and one day, and he has only lent it to Ms Gillard while he is in Bali on the condition that she does not stretch it or spill anything on it.
It's a brief luxuriation in the seat of power that will top off what has undoubtedly been an incredible year for the Member for Lalor.
After all, it is only six years ago that Julia Gillard was a little-known bit player in Labor's dispirited opposition, a red-headed backbencher with a penchant for loud suits and a voice that would strip the enamel off a refrigerator.
And it is only three short years since she - along with her Labor colleagues - surveyed the wreckage of the Latham experiment and realised tiredly that they were going to have to start all over again.
What is Julia Gillard like?
Accounts, as they say, differ.
If you believe the Coalition's recent campaign advertisements, Ms Gillard is a dangerous socialist who will probably use her 60 hours as prime minister to seize the means of production, install Phillip Adams in Yarralumla and oblige every school-age child to memorise the words to The Internationale.
It is often the curse of those thought by the Right to be too Left that they are simultaneously thought by the actual Left to be far too Right.
And Julia Gillard has always been viewed with borderline suspicion by her own colleagues in Labor's Left faction.
When she was immigration spokeswoman in 2004, and presented to the Labor conference her draft policy supporting the continuation of mandatory detention, she received just one lonely vote in a hostile Left caucus of more than 100 - and that was her own.
The acting Prime Minister has always retained the ability to laugh at herself.
She groped her way cheerfully around that self-same 2004 conference in a myopic haze, after her boyfriend of the time - the now Minister for Small Business, Craig Emerson - drank her contact lenses in a horrific bedside-glass-of-water mix-up.
She readily lampoons her own paltry housekeeping skills, and confesses privately that her polished wooden dining table has never been the same since she tried to spruce it up with oven cleaner in 2003.
And her favourite thing about the Australian people, she says, is their larrikin sense of humour.
"I was standing out at a street stall in my own electorate on one very windy winter's morning, and when you're campaigning at a street stall you stand next to a corflute sign of yourself, you know - a big poster of yourself.
"And so there I am, windswept and looking a bit bedraggled, and this old bloke comes out of the supermarket, and he looks at me and looks at the sign, and looks at me and looks at the sign, and then finally says: "Taken on a good day, wasn't it, love?"
Ladies and gentlemen, for 2 days only: The acting Prime Minister.
12:51 PM, December 11, 2007
Snouts in the Bali holiday trough
MELBOURNE, Dec 10 AAP - Victorian Premier John Brumby has jetted off to Bali to spruik the state's green credentials at the UN climate change conference.
3:56 PM, December 11, 2007
The honeymoon will be over sometime in February - sadly!
9:04 AM, December 14, 2007
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