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Permalink Reply by Jeff Hutcho on April 24, 2012 at 7:15pm

Warwick Hughes's blog "Errors in IPCC Science" has some good comment on the ex Senator Brown's explanations on last nights Q & A.

http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=1505

Brown wanted to put solar collector/molten salt storage electricity in Tasmania, similar to what is in Andasol, Southern Spain. But he didn't do his sums, or is just pie in the sky, green waffle.

The Andasol solar collector field is 600 hectares for 150 MW of solar and stored electricity, from 3x plants.

Tasmania's latitude may require a larger collector area for the same power.

Baslink brings 500MW of electricity from the mainland, from coal fired generators, including the brown coal fired generators in Gippsland.

They could grow a lot of food on 600 or more hectares.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara lee on April 24, 2012 at 10:32pm

I think the whole thing, is just inexcusable for a politicians to behave in the manner their doing, they are there for one reason only to help run this country and look after our Australia, not to have fun and games at tax payer's expense.  And the coverings up with the Craig Thomson is just plain shocking from the government,  Slippery will be treated to the same curtsey as Craig has now, big cover up coming on. Prolonging the time factor, as long as they can, they can't afford to be downgraded any further, and will fight deceitfully and underhandedly for whatever the time is needed.  How dare they treat us with utter contempt for the Australian people who are paying their wages with tax payer’s money insulting us.  You will never hear the truth.  Both should have been sack not just stood down.  There playing with our money having a great time of it, Stressful or not  no excuses, there not there to have a good time or to mucking around to make them feel comfortable.

We pay to have honest and respectful with integrity people holding down those positions, and to look after our country as I see it,  their only looking after themselves with good times and lies,  living off the backs of hard working Australians.  What an absolutely insult to the Australian people.  Should be both instantly sack or jailed,  make way for a more respectful hard working person ready to take up the challenge and would most likely do the job justice, as slippery has had many little things his done, and even sleeping in parliament a while back one time how bad was that.  We talking 360,000 Slippery is utterly so not worth that money, just a big waste of tax payers money.

This government is the ruination of this wonderful country.

Cheerio

Barb

 

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Permalink Reply by Rae Billett on April 25, 2012 at 9:23am

Al said, Oh that 'our' representatives can learn to be so effective! Going for it when you have the opportunity normally works.

 

It seems the coalition is not good at that and the Labor Party for some unknown reason doesn't know how at all!

 

But Al, they gave him the whole show and audience to himself, apart from a couple of people.....the ABC Green Brigade doing it as they do, they love Bob. Even Tony Jones went easy on him.

BUT Brown still got himself tangled and you have to ask yourself, benevolent as he seems, why do people fall for the rubbish he talks. His reply about the brown coal power station that he backed in Tasmania was interesting. Double standards at it's best! Ohhh no, he is still a devious EX-politician, whatever suits the situation and whatever it takes, they use.

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Permalink Reply by Max Dench on April 25, 2012 at 8:18pm

The mess this government has created is now starting to come back to bite them with their defence of Slipper being eroded by their own legislation. Laws which have been put in place to make things hard for businesses to operate are being used to make life hard for this government. This can be seen from the Andrew Bolt article below. 

 

 –, Wednesday, April, 25, 2012, (7:16pm)

Attorney General Nicola Roxon says we cannot have a legal system in which Speaker Peter Slipper is immediately assumed to be guilty, just because he’s been accused of sexual harassment by staffer James Ashby:

We cannot live in a world - we might as well have no legal system i.... That just feeds into the sort of muck-raking mentality that we have from Mr Abbott and says that any time an allegation’s been made, people are automatically sentenced to whatever he deems is right.

That’s not the way for us to run a country. It’s not the legal system that we have.

Small problem, says reader Charles. Thanks to Labor, that’s exactly the legal system we now have:

I listened with surprise and a touch of anger as the Attorney General insisted that Slipper be granted the presumption of innocence in relation to both the civil and criminal claims in Ashby’s Federal Court Application..

Ashby’s Application relies on the Adverse Action sections of the Fair Work Act 2009. Specifically, he claims, amongst other matters, that the Commonwealth breached section 351 - Discrimination .

In all Adverse Action matters under the FWA, the Respondent is presumed guilty unless they prove otherwise. We call this “the reverse onus of proof”. This is what section 361 provides.

Now, either the Attorney General does not know how this legislation operates or she is telling porkies (remember also, that this legislation was introduced by Julia Gillard when she was the Minister for IR) The reverse onus is a major difficulty with this legislation for Respondents and the subject of much legal comment. Its existence should not come as any surprise to a competent AG.

Thus, Slipper has in fact contravened the FWA until such time as he “proves otherwise” and no presumption of innocence exists under this Labor drafted legislation. Any claims to the contrary are simply mischievous.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by vivienne skeen on April 26, 2012 at 10:53am

LONG-SERVING federal Liberal MP Patrick Secker, who last month lost a preselection challenge in his rural South Australian seat, will consider running for Speaker if Peter Slipper does not resume the role.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/should-sl...

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Hutcho on April 26, 2012 at 11:36am

Hi Vivienne,

This morning, the radio news reported Tony Windsor has removed his support for Speaker Peter Slipper.

I have checked and found that Mr Rob Oakeshott (temporary MP), is still playing mirrors (looking into it).

Nearly (:-) - Going, going, nearly gone ? ->

Bring it On.

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I doubt if Tony Abbott will be in Port Macquarie for the Ironman event coming up the 5th or 6th May weekend.

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Permalink Reply by vivienne skeen on April 26, 2012 at 12:08pm

Hi Jeff

I heard that about Tony Windsor, then I read that Liberal Peter Secker is offering his services to Labor as Speaker. We really need some luck, to get this socialist lot out arrrrg!!!

Jeff Hutcho said:

Hi Vivienne,

This morning, the radio news reported Tony Windsor has removed his support for Speaker Peter Slipper.

I have checked and found that Mr Rob Oakeshott (temporary MP), is still playing mirrors (looking into it).

Nearly (:-) - Going, going, nearly gone ? ->

Bring it On.

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I doubt if Tony Abbott will be in Port Macquarie for the Ironman event coming up the 5th or 6th May weekend.

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on April 26, 2012 at 1:38pm

Vivienne,  you should have read that piece right through to the end:

 

Mr Secker said it was unlikely he would be approached by Labor.

"I think it (the Speaker's role) has been pretty well reserved for (independent MP) Rob Oakeshott," he said.

Asked if he was considering standing as an independent for Barker at the next election, he said: "I don't have any such plans."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/should-sl...

vivienne skeen said:

LONG-SERVING federal Liberal MP Patrick Secker, who last month lost a preselection challenge in his rural South Australian seat, will consider running for Speaker if Peter Slipper does not resume the role.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/should-sl...

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Permalink Reply by vivienne skeen on April 26, 2012 at 2:11pm

Jan, Peter Specker also said in the article:

Asked if he was interested in replacing Mr Slipper, who has stood aside pending an investigation into allegations he misused Cabcharges and also faces a sexual harassment claim from senior adviser James Ashby, Mr Secker said: "I don't rule anything in or out - that is politics."

Jan Courtney said:

Vivienne,  you should have read that piece right through to the end:

 

Mr Secker said it was unlikely he would be approached by Labor.

"I think it (the Speaker's role) has been pretty well reserved for (independent MP) Rob Oakeshott," he said.

Asked if he was considering standing as an independent for Barker at the next election, he said: "I don't have any such plans."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/should-sl...

vivienne skeen said:

LONG-SERVING federal Liberal MP Patrick Secker, who last month lost a preselection challenge in his rural South Australian seat, will consider running for Speaker if Peter Slipper does not resume the role.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/should-sl...

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on April 26, 2012 at 2:26pm

Yes I did read that Vivienne,  but I thought that in the context of the piece that latter comment was more relevant.

 

Can you just see Boofhead as Speaker ?    How long would it take him to make a ruling ?

 

Perhaps the ABC would forbid it as they would lose QT viewers by the bucketload, unable to look at that inane grin any longer. 

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on April 26, 2012 at 2:56pm

A very interesting Blog from Corey Bernardi :

 

http://www.corybernardi.com/2012/04/a-rotting-fish.html

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on April 26, 2012 at 3:25pm

Denise,  I recall reading that also,  while I was looking for it I came across this from today's Northern Daily Leader:

 

Windsor withdraws support for Slipper

LENORE TAYLOR

26 Apr, 2012 11:56 AM

THE Gillard government's hopes of having Peter Slipper back in the Speaker's chair in time for the May budget have been dashed, with a second key independent MP deciding Mr Slipper should stand aside while all claims against him are heard.

 

The shift in position by Tony Windsor means Mr Slipper is unlikely to resume the speakership for many months, leaving the government with a majority of just one vote.

 

This is the same position numerically that Labor was in before Mr Slipper's defection from the Liberal National Party in November, but politically it is far more precarious because the Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie has ''torn up'' his agreement with Labor after it was unable to deliver on an agreement over poker machines.

Mr Windsor said he would call Mr Slipper in coming days to advise him of his decision.

''I have been going through the material and I think it's probably best that he not resume his seat until this stuff is sorted out,'' Mr Windsor said. ''That doesn't mean I am pre-judging him, but I think it definitely is having an impact on how people view the Parliament and the office of Speaker … and I think until it's sorted out it's better that he stay away from the chair.''

 

http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/news/local/news/general/winds...

 

 

 

 

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