Rudd V Gillard

The way I see it is.
Labor is going to be beaten in the 2013 election, I doubt there are too many that think Labor can win.
With Gillard at the helm we will have a more stable government until 2013. With Rudd the government will be unstable because of less talent on the front bench, and possibility that the Independents may stop supporting him, which will lead to an early election.
Rudd has a much bigger chance (if there is one) of defeating Abbott in the 2013 election.
So what would you do if you were a government backbencher?
Go for Gillard and certain annihilation, possibly bigger than NSW Labor's loss last year. Or.
Go with Rudd and still have a loss or a very small outside chance of a win (maybe 100/1), but possibly lose less members at the next election.
Put yourself in the backbenchers position.
For me personally I would go for Gillard for a more stable government and wait for the Neanderthals to bash down the castle gates in 2013.
Labor needs to change and what Rudd said about the faceless men/union movement is right. They need to reinvent themselves as a new progressive left leaning Liberal party, not to be confused with the Liberal party that is a right wing conservative party and not Liberal at all. Liberals to me are progressive, Abbotts mob are not.

Worst Government in Australian History

Is the current Australian government the "Worst Government in Australian History"?
I don't know, at the moment they are close.
I hold no torch for Gillard or Rudd.
Gillard is an inept leader. Nothing that shows this up more than what is happening at the moment.
If she had leadership qualities she would sack Rudd now, she should have last week at the latest.
He has been the most destabilising influence on this government.
What is she afraid of?
A leadership spill?
Rudd will only challenge if he has the numbers.
The longer Gillard "flounces" around, the more votes in caucus that she will lose.
Admittedly she has a lot against her.
A hung parliament, that is very difficult to negotiate.
The way she came to be Prime Minister.
If Rudd gets his old job back will he be a reformed character?
Only time will tell.
He has a lot of people in Labor that are against him.
He is more popular with the electorate, and maybe will put up a better show in an election than Gillard.
But Rudd needs to form a backbone and stop his overbearing, bullying behavior.
Unfortunately, the opposition, under Abbott, will be inept as well.

Climate Change Hoax? (Think tank’s talking points deepen the divide over climate change).

The quote below is from "The Conversation".
The Conversation is an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector — written by acknowledged experts and delivered directly to the public.
The article is written by Elaine McKewon.
Elaine McKewon is a third-year journalism PhD student at the University of Technology 

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they’ve been in. —– Dennis Potter
Readers following the Australian news media’s coverage of climate change will probably have detected the conspiracy theories designed to discredit climate science and climate scientists.
These conspiracy theories label the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming “a hoax”, “a religion” or a “scare tactic” concocted to justify higher taxes and arbitrary, draconian restrictions on the personal freedoms of “helpless” and “disenfranchised” citizens.
Purveyors of this alternative reality tell us the entire global community of climate scientists has fabricated or exaggerated the threat of climate change to secure further funding for their research. This has been aided and abetted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a “political” organisation bent on fomenting a global warming crisis in order to install a left-wing totalitarian world government.

Read the full article at The Conversation.

Climate Gate

Those hacked British emails that allegedly shows a climate conspiracy by scientists.
See these videos.

Are they Global Warming Hoaxers

Are these people, scientists on this video all part of a hoax a conspiracy to pull the wool over our eyes about global warming. For what??  Have their grants continue? What else.
Do you believe the climate deniers?

More on Monckton and Others

Here is another YouTube video about Monckton, Alan Jones, the Galileo Organisation plus others.
It makes for very interesting listening.
It goes for 48 minutes and well worth the listening..
I think the video is from an ABC show. You know the Pinko, Leso, Poffo, Commo organisation that misinforms us on radio and TV.

 

The bits that I thought were interesting was when Jo Nova a scientist with Alan Jone's Galileo organisation said that peer reviewed science was broken and science should now be debated by the general public and they should then make their minds up. Even me who did not finish high school knows that this is BULLSHIT. This is coming from a scientist on Alan Jone's Galileo organisation.

Lord uphimself Monckton said that he has a cure for AIDS, Malaria, MS and has to run clinical trials. He was very evasive when questioned on this, but did not deny it. WOW, what a man, medical science is really going to stand up and take notice of him now. Do you think? 

Christopher Monckton talking to Australian Mining Moguls

Here is Lord uphimself Monckton talking in July last year, climate-denialist Christopher Monckton advised mining industry insiders to create a US-style Fox News channel in Australia, supported by the "super wealthy" in order to provide supportive coverage for the mining industry. The video, filmed in the boardrooms of pro-mining organisation Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, shows Mr Monckton offering to work with commentators such as Andrew Bolt to establish the channel.

Make up your own  mind if this is a good thing or not.