Look, I can understand the relief of the Press Gallery dealing with the likes of Malcolm Turnbull instead of the daily WTF! announcements endured under PM Abbott, but... the thrall they seem to held under with their shiny new PM is getting so embarrassing, the line "get a room" comes to mind.

As it seems most journalists in the Press Gallery have forgotten, I will remind them that it was just over 12 months ago at the Brisbane G20 the participants, including Australia, said they would “crack down on International Tax Havens”. We also had a "budget emergency" back in the day too? Considering our current budget deficit, instead of lauding Mr Turnbull for admitting he is rich – yes they did, go figure – they should be connecting the dots. Perhaps questioning, if due to these "tax haven" choices, could we actually trust Mr Turnbull to crack down on them, making them pay their taxes so ours did not have to be raised to pick up that burden, as we were promised only 12 short months ago?

read more: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/class-clowns-the-press-gallerys-sickening-malcolm-turnbull-love-affair,8277

New figures show South Australia experienced October temperatures that were well above average, and more so than at any time since the early 1900s.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) today released its figures for past month, showing SA temperatures exceeded the monthly average by up to seven degrees.

BOM climatologist Shaun Carson said it had been a month of records.

"It was pretty impressive. If you can think back 12 months ago, we broke a lot of records for the same time last year going that went right back to 1914," Mr Carson said.

"Now here we are 12 months later and exceeding what we did in spring last year.

"So (it was) an extremely hot month across the state, with temperatures five to seven degrees above average.

"Some of the heat that we saw as early as the third to the fifth of October were temperatures in the low to mid-thirties, followed by a second heatwave in the middle of the month where temperatures were in the mid to high thirties," he said.

"And we saw a couple total fire ban days.

"It was a marked contrast to September where we had quite cool, more winter-like temperatures, then we just jumped straight into December-like temperatures."

Mr Carson said October also had been one of the driest months on record, with only one area in the far west of South Australia receiving above average rainfall.

"No surprises there, with hot temperatures and clear skies and hardly any rainfall, and most of the state only picking up an average of about five or 10 millimetres," he said.

While a little slow to take hold in South Australia, Mr Carson said the El Nino weather pattern had well and truly got the state in its grasp.

"Certainly El Nino became the major climate driver for South Australia as we moved into October," he said.

"Through winter it was okay, but come October it really took over the waters of the east of Australia and really took over the local climate in South Australia.

"We really flicked the switch from a fairly cool winter to hot conditions in October.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-02/south-australia-october-weather-records/6906170

It was the second warmest October in Sydney and the warmest October for the entire country. Global warming is not a fallacy. GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL. GLOBAL WARMING IS ANTHROPOGENIC. HUMANS ARE RESPONSIBLE.

Grain growers in north-western Victoria have lost up to 30 per cent of crops after heavy falls of rain and hail over the weekend.

Peter Tuohey is president of the Victorian Farmers' Federation and a fifth-generation grain, wool and prime lamb producer from Pyramid Hill.

"We had a pretty severe hail storm on Saturday night with hail the size of marbles, but in other areas the size of golf balls," he said.

"I've heard of some growers losing up to 30 per cent of their crops. The worst part about it, after a long hard season, it's not really what you want.

"Farmers will be getting their insurance assessors in to see what sort of damage they have had and whether they can make a claim."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-02/storm-grain-crop-losses-victoria/6905736