Julia Gillard, six weeks ago.
Liar!
‘The fix is in, and shame on any commentator who falls for this childish spin:
THE Australian Greens have secured a deputy chair position on a new parliamentary climate change committee, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced.
The committee will receive independent advice from four experts – Ross Garnaut, Will Steffen, Rod Sims and Patricia Faulkner.
Ms Gillard will chair the committee while Climate Change Minister Greg Combet and Greens climate spokeswomen Christine Milne will serve as co-deputy chairs.
Ms Gillard said the committee would start from the position that a carbon price was required to reduce pollution and encourage investment in low-emission technologies.
Note already that the committee skips what should be the start of any discussion. As in: is a carbon price actually worth the pain? Will cutting our emissions actually achieve anything? Is a rise in global temperatures actually good for us? Isn’t it suicidal to slash our tiny emissions before the rest of the world – and especially the biggest emitters – agree to do likewise?
So right away this committee is fundamentally rigged to dodge debate and produce the “right” result. What’s sold by Gillard as an exercise to achieve “community consensus” is a con – this is the consensus you reach simply by excluding everyone who doesn’t agree with you….’ Andrew Bolt.
(and let’s not forget…More than 80 per cent of voters at last month’s election gave their first vote to a party which opposed a carbon tax.)
