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"One of the enduring pillars of the climate change issue is that the temperature of the Earth is increasing at an unprecedented rate … we’ve heard it a million times over the past few decades. However, it is well known that the temperature of the Earth has not increased over the past decade, and the lack of recent warming is now receiving serious consideration in the leading scientific journals." (Source: World Climate Report, February 1, 2010) |
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| HOW LONG HAS AUSTRALIA'S FEDERAL GOVERNMENT KNOWN? The Australian federal government, lead by Prime MInister Kevin Rudd, has used selective data to justify its position and policy on Emissions trading. The question arises as to how long has the Prime Ministre, The Climate Change Minister Penny Wong and the Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, known that what they were telling us was, and is, not true. Now their cover is blown they are somewhat silent. Perhaps they are in shell shock, or damage mode, as we take apart their theories, arguments and plans, expsoing their mendacity. What are the several hundred new public servants within the Climate Change Department doing if the bedrock of the government's justification has melted? What are the Australian state's, and territories, new positions, and policies, on climate change and the unravelling of their own rubbish policies and justfications? I expect that the labor party Ministers at federal, state and territory levels will act as if nothing has changed and will be pig headed in their pursuit of their own ideology and views. They will spin, at every turn, creating an illusion of never having made a mistake. (Kevin R Beck, February 2010) "The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history. Such was the finding reported last week by Marco Tedesco and Andrew Monaghan in the journal Geophysical Research Letters: A 30-year minimum Antarctic snowmelt record occurred during austral summer 2008–2009 according to spaceborne microwave observations for 1980–2009" (Source: World Climate Report, October 6, 2009) "UN science report which stated Himalayan glaciers would melt within 25 years 'was a guess' By DAVID DERBYSHIRE, 18th January 2010 Claims by the world's leading climate scientists that most of the Himalayan glaciers will vanish within 25 years were last night exposed as nonsense. The alarmist warning appeared two years ago in a highly influential report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. At the time the IPCC insisted that its report contained the latest and most detailed evidence yet of the risks of man-made climate change to the planet." Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1243963/UN-science-report-stated-Himalayan-glaciers-melt-25-years-guess.html#ixzz0cw1TMdZF" (Source: Mail Online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1243963/UN-science-report-stated-Himalayan-glaciers-melt-25-years-guess.html) Here in Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Climate Change Minister, Senator Penny Wong and Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, have all claimed the science and evidence based fact for their arguments and dire predictions. Inter alia, "Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Core Writing Team, Pachauri, R.K. and Reisinger, A. (Eds.), IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland. pp 104" (Source: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_synthesis_report.htm) "We're already seeing changes. Glaciers are melting,... Cliamte Crisis, http://www.climatecrisis.net/climate-change.php) The Australian labor government based their claims of a need for an Emissions Trading Scheme in Australia on the science of climate change and the evil demon - carbon. In the parliaments they have cast asperions on the integrity of people and issued insulting remarks. Now these three are silent. Thweir spin doctors and parastic manipulators of truh amd fact are working on a new fiction to extract the Prime Minister and two Ministers from an embarrassing situation. Denigrating those who questioned them or dismissive in their attitudes they are being shown to have been gullible. Very busy people, relyting on others, and simply swallowing the tripe put before them. The reserachers in the Australian Department of Climate Change should surely be questioned as to their reserach, and analysis, capabilities and indepndent thinking capacities. (Kevin R Beck, January 2010) " ClimateGate's Michael Mann Received Stimulus Funds By NOEL SHEPPARD From the Media Research Center A scientist in the middle of the ClimateGate scandal received economic stimulus funds last June. As NewsBusters reported on November 28, Penn State University is investigating Professor Michael Mann, the creator of the discredited "Hockey Stick Graph," for his involvement in an international attempt to exaggerate and manipulate climate data in order to advance the myth of manmade global warming. According to the conservative think tank the National Center for Public Policy Research, Mann received $541,184 in economic stimulus funds last June to conduct climate change research. With this in mind, NCPPR issued a press release Thursday asking for these funds to be returned: In the face of rising unemployment and record-breaking deficits, policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are criticizing the Obama Administration for awarding a half million dollar grant from the economic stimulus package to Penn State Professor Michael Mann, a key figure in the Climategate controversy. " (Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703657604575005412584751830.html?mod=googlenews_wsj) JANUARY 16TH, 2010 16:50, Climategate goes American: NOAA, GISS and the mystery of the vanishing weather stations (Source: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/) ANUARY 14TH, 2010 23:19, Dodgy GISS temperature records exposed: the US Climategate? (Source: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/) JANUARY 14TH, 2010 9:56, 'AGW? I refute it THUS!': Central England Temperatures 1659 to 2009 (Source: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/) The collateral damage from the emails is large ClimateGate doesn’t just bring down the scientists who wrote the emails, it brings down all the institutions and organizations that were supposed to have exacting standards and ought to have exposed the crimes years ago. The men whose work was so bogus, were lauded by the IPCC, published in Nature and Science, and defended by the National Academy of Science. This evidence of collusion, falsification, hiding data, and consistent deceit blows away the infrastructures of the practice of science. It doesn’t hurt the scientific method, but it destroys the premise that the IPCC expert review means anything, that peer review is capable of even picking up outright fraud, and that the National Academy of Science is functional. …the journals, the famous peer review, the committees with international reviewers: they have also been exposed as corrupted. In other words, all the human processes of science, the journals, the famous peer review, the committees with international reviewers: they have also been exposed as corrupted to some degree." (Source: The ClimateGate Virus, http://joannenova.com.au/2009/12/the-climategate-virus/) |
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WHO'S COOKING THE BOOKS?
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says that the outcome of the Copenhagen meeting is substantial. There is agreement to keep global warming at 2 dgrees. Who thought up this figure and how accurate is it? "On Tuesday, we heard via the Ria Novosti agency that the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change had probably tampered with Russian-climate data: The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations. The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century. The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations. They concluded climatologists use the incomplete findings of meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete observations and data from stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations. Paint-by-Numbers Science Imagine a paint-by-numbers kit with 12 colors of the spectrum — from purple and blue, green to yellow, orange and red, each numbered. When you finish coloring the areas in the coloring book or canvas with the appropriate color number, you have a color painting for the fridge. Suppose you got a version with only the number 1 and 2 colors marked. You have the colors — but what you end up with is a patchwork of two colors on a white background, with lines defining other areas. You could guess about the other colors, but the end result may not be what the original creator had in mind. Believe it or not, this very simple analogy applies to the claims of global warming.... And NASA uses the GHCN, applying their own adjustments, as we reported in this story: Perhaps one of the biggest issues with the global data is station dropout after 1990. Over 6000 stations were active in the mid-1990s. Just over 1000 are in use today. The stations that dropped out were mainly rural and at higher latitudes and altitudes — all cooler stations. This alone should account for part of the assessed warming. China had 100 stations in 1950, over 400 in 1960, then only 25 by 1990. This changing distribution makes any assessment of accurate change impossible." (Source: Climategate: … And Just Like That, the Warming’s Gone (PJM Exclusive) The Russian paint-by-numbers data. The CRU data matching NOAA and NASA. What's left?, December 17, 2009 - by Joseph D'Aleo, James Delingpole, in the Telegraph, noted Wednesday: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/daleo-and-just-like-that-the-warmings-gone-pjm-exclusive/) |
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POLITICIANS ARROGANCE AND HUBRIS
The leaders of the world, at the Copenhagen Climate talks, in December 2009, have decided that they will alter the future of the world by keeping global warming at, or below, 2 degrees. What arrogance is this that they think that they are capable of harnessing, and controlling, the natural order of things. To bring the planet to heel. Who arrived at this figure and how? There comes a time when we have to ask our political leaders, and perhaps ourselves, what is the extent of hubris, that man would assume they are the greatest impact, and influence, on this earth. What arrogance to to assume the power of the God being in their puny activities on this earth? (Kevin R Beck, December 2009) |
Did they deliberately set out to mislead us? It is not clear how Kevin Rudd arrives at strategy and who has influence? It is clear that the Australian labor party, or for that matter also the liberal, national and greens parties, have substandard intelligence gathering networks and systems. If the labor party had a sophisticated mechanism in place then they would not have been blindsided by Tony Abbott. They would also be well aware that the Australian electorate is not on board with the government's ETS (Emission Trading Scheme). They would also have a better understanding as to where to gather their information and identify the protagonists and the barrier creationists. The government's Emission Trading Scheme is under serious threat internally within Australia. Climate Change and Water Minister, Senator Penny Wong, has not covered all the bases and has failed to clearlt articulate the scheme. To simply put a "spin" argument on the web purporting to be a full justification is not the manner in which this issue should be approached. There are hidden forces, and interests, who intend to stymy and kill off the government's ETS. The process adopted by Kevin Rudd, regarding policy development is a myopic and bureaucratic one. The Australian media has focused on Mr Rudd's propensity for the "research and enquiry" based approach. What they have not looked at are the pitfalls in this approach. The practically oriented, invariably those who may have little regard for, or little deeper education, may eschew Mr Rudd's approach. They may prefer historical experience "If practitioners shun theory then they must rely on experience as a guide to action. In deciding on their response to a problem they draw on a range of options suggested by previous experience with that type of issue. However, “it is wishful thinking to assume that experience alone will teach leaders everything they need to know” (Copland et al, 2002, p. 75)." (in Theories of Educational Management, Tony Bush, http://cnx.org/content/m13867/latest/) The Climate Change Department of the Commonwealth government may have failed the Senator in its role since it is a new and powerfulk department at the apex of government policy. What has been the focus of this agency? "Niskanen argues that the size of the discretionary budget (Y) reflects the reward structure in the bureaucratic environment...Niskanen begins by showing that bureaucrats maximize personal utility (wages and perks) by maximising the agency's budget. Actually, he corrects this statement. Instead: bureaucrats maximise objectives defined in terms of the agency's discretionary budget. (The discretionary budget is the difference between the budget parliament gives and the cost to the agency of producing its output)." (Source: Niskanen: Bureaucrats and politicians, Journal of Law and Economics 18 (December): 617-43.) "In an address to senior public servants in April 2008, the Prime Minister observed that, ‘evidence-based policy-making is at the heart of being a reformist government’. I want to explore why that is profoundly true; what it means in practice, and some implications for those of us in public administration. In doing so, I will draw on the experience of the Productivity Commission—which with its predecessors has been at the heart of evidence- based policy-making in Australia for over three decades—to distil some insights into what is needed across government generally if we are to be successful. It is as important that we have a rigorous, evidence-based approach to public policy in Australia today as at any time in our history. This country faces major long-term challenges; challenges that have only been exacerbated by the economic turbulence that we are struggling to deal with right now. When the present crisis is over, we will still have the ongoing challenges of greenhouse, the ageing of our population and continuing international competitive pressures. We should not underestimate the significance of those challenges, which place a premium on enhancing the efficiency and productivity of our economy." (Source of extract: Contemporary Government Challenges Challenges of evidence-based policy-making, Gary Banks AO, Australian Public Service Commission, http://www.apsc.gov.au/publications09/evidencebasedpolicy.htm) Thus we might say that the Prime Minister is more academic than bureaucrat, though there are overlaps in the profile of each type. In the case of the Australian ETS proposal there is little evidence to show that the examination, and choice, of this particular mechanism (ETS) to address climate change was academically, bureaucratically or politically astute. Because a topic is complex and detailed, that should not mean that there is no attempt to explain it. The government's behaviour in ths regard bears examination and demands explanation. The Honourable Minister, Senator Wong, appeared to my mind to speak all too often in generalities bristling with political barbs. Then the government, and particularly, Mr Rudd and Ms Wong, intertwine Climate Change and the ETS as if they are homogenous and synonymous. This is not merely disingenuous it bordres on both misrepresentation and questionable behaviour. The ETS has nothing to do with climate change. The ETS is a contrived (creatd) market instrument. The theory is that price and market forces bring about Emissions reduction, investment in renewable energy and changes in behaviour. "ETS will kill Tourism, Transport and Trade, By Viv Forbes Saturday, Canada Free Press, September 12, 2009 Emissions trading schemes proposed for the western world will guarantee another global financial crisis for tourism, transport and world trade. All carbon control schemes have at their core two essential features aimed at reducing man’s production of the harmless gas, carbon dioxide. Firstly, increasingly severe rationing of carbon dioxide (CO2) releases. And secondly, taxes on all permitted Emissions and punitive taxes on any excess. They are all Ration-and-Tax Schemes and they will all enforce arbitrary reductions by 2020. But not one car, truck, bus, train, plane or ship can move without producing CO2. There is no possibility that this will change significantly before the doomsday year of 2020, just a decade away. Therefore neither Australia nor New Zealand can cut CO2 Emissions by 2020 without slowly strangling all those industries that rely on moving people or goods. Our politicians should be asked, individually, what food, mineral products and travel they propose doing without in order to meet the 2020 cuts specified in their Ration-and-Tax Schemes. Australia and New Zealand comprise four lonely islands in the vast southern oceans which stretch from Africa to South America However, world population, political power and finance are concentrated far away in the Northern Hemisphere. Apart from a few stock horses used by drovers, the occasional sailing yacht, some suburban bicycles and some hydro power that moves trains, our transport fleets rely totally on petrol, diesel, gas and coal. There are no solar powered aeroplanes or sail powered ocean liners – all produce CO2. Neither country can import tourists, get mineral and food products to their cities or export goods to world markets without producing CO2." (Source of extract as cited, An Honest Climate Debate, Exposing the truth about the Man-Made Climate Change theory, http://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/ets-will-kill-tourism-transport-and-trade/) |
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"ETS passes first hurdle 16 November 2009 | 08:25:03 PM | Source: AAP, Agriculture will be excluded from the ETS. (AAP) Australia has moved one step closer to having an Emissions trading scheme after draft laws passed the lower house, as the government hinted there was more room to move on the coalition's wishlist of changes. Government backflip on Emissions Govt and coalition strike first ETS deal Greens attack ETS deal as poll shows public want greater cut As widely expected, the controversial carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS) passed the lower house on Monday after the government used its numbers to push it through. With the legislation now moving to the Senate, where the real debate begins, the most important negotiations continue to be played out behind closed doors. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong and the coalition's negotiator, Ian Macfarlane, remain locked in negotiations even as the legislation moves through the parliament. It's going down to the wire, with meetings planned for this week and not ruled out for the next. But the odds of a positive outcome appear to have firmed. Senator Wong is not ruling out additional concessions after conceding to a major coalition request on the weekend to remove agriculture from the scheme. (Source: SBS Australia, http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1132837/latest-from-wire/) " Lib MPs offer to quit over Malcolm Turnbull's ETS strategy Samantha Maiden, Online Political Editor From: The Australian November 25, 2009 12:03PM THREE junior Liberal frontbenchers have offered their resignations in the latest wildcat action against Malcolm Turnbull's leadership. As Mr Turnbull prepares to call for a show of hands on a leadership spill today, in an attempt to knock the leadership issue on the head, The Australian Online understands Matthias Cormann, Mitch Fifield and Brett Mason have offered to quit. Mr Turnbull has not accepted their resignations. The Coalition leader has challenged MPs to call on a leadership spill at a lunchtime party room meeting. But senior figures expect a show of hands will determine not to pursue the matter, stopping Kevin Andrews leadership tilt in its tracks. The Australian Online understands Mr Turnbull will not declare the leadership vacant. He will ask for a show of hands on whether the partyroom wants a leadership contest. Liberal frontbenchers believe MPs will not vote for a leadership spill at this time." (Source: The Australian November 25, 2009 - http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/lib-mps-offer-to-quit-over-malcolm-turnbulls-ets-strategy/story-e6frgczf-1225803641304) " Malcolm Turnbull compared to Robert Mugabe as Liberal anger over ETS boils over AAP From: AAP November 25, 2009 9:31AM (1 vote) Opposition against leadership spill Malcolm Turnbull has survived an attempt by his critics to bring down his leadership. Views today: 164 UPDATE 2.40pm: A FEDERAL Liberal MP has compared Malcolm Turnbull to Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe. Peter Slipper made the comments after the opposition leader declared the joint parties room had accepted coalition amendments to Labor's Emissions trading scheme (ETS). "The leader last night was about as dodgy as a Zimbabwean election organised by Robert Mugabe,'' Mr Slipper told reporters in Canberra this morning. "I don't want to make any comment other than that.'' Mr Turnbull survived by a narrow margin this afternoon, when a secret ballot of Liberal MPs to decide on a leadership spill saw a leadership motion defeated by 48 to 35." (Source: Herald Sun, Melbourne, http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/malcolm-turnbull-compared-to-robert-mugabe-as-liberal-anger-over-ets-boils-over/story-e6frf7jo-1225803552474) " ETS deal - Bob Brown, A 'cave-in to the big polluters'. That's how Greens leader Bob Brown describes the revamped ETS deal. He's critical of the amended Emissions Trading legislation, saying it's too generous to polluters. The Coalition secured an extra $7 billion in industry assistance over 10 years and much of the extra cash will go to the coal sector and electricity generators. Bob Brown says the government and the opposition have delivered a Polluters PayDay." (Source: ABC Australia, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2009/2752619.htm) |
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Australia (commentary by Kevin R Beck) We can ignore the convoluted, and irksome presentation style, and language, of the Prime Minister,
hopefully looking to the essence of the message however this is difficult. Moreso when it involves a significant issue.
Almost every statement from the newer generation (2009) of labor governemnt Ministers, not the seasoned ones such as Simon Crean,
John Faulkner, Lindsay Tanner, to name a few, is peppered with insults, smart commentary, and metaphors. Words that largely seek to degrade rather than inform or
a tortured evasive presentation. Then there is the 'echo" whereby the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister trot out the same sentences by rote.
They carry the spin doctor's message" to us all, in every interview, causing a nauseous bile to rise.
Do they not have independent thoughts of their own? What constituency do these people represent? Those who elected them or their political party? The answer is
readily apparent. The latter. Take for example the Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong's diatribe some months back, in response to the Oppositions proposals for a reworked Emissions Trading Scheme, or Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (they cannot get a single name for it) - she called it a "mongrel". This choice of words may hark back to her past working job as an industrial lawyer, take no prisoners, give no ground, or it may be a product of her deeper character traits. Whatever the reason, when she resorts to crass and worthless metaphors, that have no substance, she demeans her highly educated articulate self. She instead presents as a Minister more interested in head kicking than assisting the electorate to understand the very complex issue. This may be all very entertaining for a moribund narrow minded media and political commentators, but it is rather irelevant to the wider electorate. The Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, has a penchant for trying to be witty with metaphors. It does not help that Senator Xenophon started the animal references when he referred to the labor ETS policy as a "dog". However he is not a federal Minister though we can expect more and he might in future show us that he is capable of higher level language skills also. Frontier Economics undertook the study for the liberal party and independent senator Nick Xenophon. Extract "Wong attacks Turnbull's 'mongrel' Emissions trading plan Christian Kerr | August 10, 2009, The Australian CLIMATE Change Minister Penny Wong has accused Malcolm Turnbull of rehashing failed overseas policy in a "mongrel" Emissions trading proposal that would not tackle climate change. Turnbull's lean, green environment... The Opposition claims its alternative scheme to tackle climate change will be cheaper and greener... In a feisty response to Mr Turnbull's argument for changes to the Government's legislation, Senator Wong warned that the Government would push on with its CPRS plan “for as long as we have to”. (source: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25908313-601,00.html) Feisty? I would call it puerile if she was a boy and immature grabage for a senior Minister of the Crown. Kevin Rudd presents no better example or carefully articulated response in the parliament on August 11, 2009. "Mr Rudd used question time to claim the Opposition was seeking to hide its own divisions. "They are not united by a policy on climate change, they are united in their opposition to our policy on climate change,'' the Prime Minister said. He said Mr Turnbull's alternative scheme was ``an absolute, rolled gold, unreconstructed Liberal party magic pudding". (Source: Kevin Rudd exploits Coalition's Emissions trading 'disunity', Christian Kerr | August 11, 2009, Extract from an article in The Australian - KEVIN Rudd has accused the Coalition of trying to buy time over the Emissions trading scheme - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25915387-5013871,00.html). Did he think up this smart response all by himself or is it a product from his spin meister advisers? Regardless it is inane. It adds no value and demonstrates the quality of debate in our federal parliament. Never mind that Independent Senator Nick Xenopohon funded the Frontier Economics study with the liberal party. The Prime Minister, and Minister, are too mealy mouthed and insulting to give him the time of day or acknowledgement, except when they need his vote in the Senate. They also insult Frontier Economics, but hey that is politics and their political objectives, ideas and opinions, carry higher status, and worth, don't they? This ia very complex, and unclear science, and a major economic impacting piece of legislation. Yet the way the Prime Minister approaches the task of getting his "political strategy" through is to ram it and hammer, as if we are just side line players in some facade that passes for democratic government and professional politics. The majority of Australians may well think - a pox on both the liberal, and labor parties, in parliaments across the nation. This labor policy will destroy jobs, comunity and sectors of the Australian economy, all in the name of political ideology, some crystal ball gazing and the nurturing of a war within the science fraternity. |
| If Australians are looking for an independent source, with little vested political interest, on the climate change debate then they could probably look no farther than the Senator Steve Fielding, who used his own funds and time, to travel internationally to try and discern credible arguments on climate change. " Australia is really yet to have the debate about what is driving climate change. For years I believed, like most of us, that man made carbon dioxide Emissions were the main cause of global warming. However, over the last few months after speaking to a number of scientists both here and overseas I have discovered the science on both sides of the debate isn’t conclusive. The government needs to explain to the Australian people why global temperatures have remained steady over the last 10-15 years despite skyrocketing man made carbon Emissions." (Senator Fielding) He has no peer in the Australian parliament in this regard. He is former engineer and has approached his task methodically. This probably irks the charismatic, but perhaps lesser informed, or open minded, Minister for Climate Change Ms. Penny Wong who prefers to talk in generalities, doomsday theories and language. She has a brand new department engaged in publishing papers reporting doomsday scenarios for Melbourn'es heritage Buildings. This is trite, and shallow, rubbish that the government is serving up through its spin machines which now involve using government agencies. It should stick to substantial matters which are on its web site rather than sensational material supporting political agendas. To have a look at Senator Fielding's material, click here.
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