wearing a beige cardigan on a hot day at the beach because mum said so...

 

Climate change policy once again challenges Turnbull’s hold on the Liberal Party leadership. 

While the Murdoch press is stoking up tensions to undermine the Prime Minister, the simple fact is that there is a hardcore of reactionaries in his party who reject science and climate change.

Climate change policy once again challenges Turnbull’s hold on the Liberal Party leadership.

If this means dumping the Prime Minister to drop even the pretence of climate change policy that is the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), then some of Coalition members, at least – Tony Abbott comes to mind – may well pursue the destruction of their own Prime Minister and Government to achieve that.

So, what is the point of Malcolm Turnbull? After yet another back down to the extreme right within his Coalition Government, this time on climate change, the answer seems pretty clear. He stands for nothing, other than to remain in power.

Turnbull is a salutary lesson in the pitfalls of managing capitalism in the two-decade-long decline of profit rates globally. In Australia, that decline began after the collapse of the mining boom.

The graph ... shows the stabilisation of profit rates after 1997 (and even an increase due to the neoliberal policies of the Howard Government and the intervention of the Rudd Government in the GFC) but the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. reasserting itself in 2013.

The latest Turnbull NEG sell-out debate has reignited tensions. Instead of putting the target of a 26% cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 into the NEG legislation, the back down proposal is now to have the target set in an executive order – seemingly similar to a regulation – but with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) mandated to report on the impact on energy prices any increase in the target would have.

Why has Turnbull sold out this time? There were up to ten Coalition backbenchers and ministers who reserved the right to cross the floor if the 26% target was included in the NEG legislation. 

The extreme right’s reasons for its position vary among members but it boils down to a belief that climate change is not real or, that a target will increase the price of energy even more. As well, for them, the problem is the target being in delegated legislation, like an executive order or regulation. They fear Labor would when in power, increase the target from 26% to their own long-term target of 45%, through the relevant minister or executive council signing off on the increase, without Parliamentary approval. 

As previously mentioned, the target will be met more or less through the current Renewable Energy Target (RET) anyway, without further action. This 26% is the target you have when you don’t have a target. It was itself designed to appease the climate change deniers and coal fetishists in the Coalition.

 

Read more:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/what-is-the-p...

 

 

The point is that Trumble wants to hold on to power no matter what — and he does every unimaginable spins and turns to stay there... Nothing to do with emission eductions, the price of electricity nor to do with the future of Australia as a believable country... Call an early election now, Trumble, and spare us the misery of "you being bowled out by Dutton". This would be the pits of pits.

Malcolm Turnbull did two things on Monday.

Turnbull walked into the blue room of Parliament House and told reporters he could not carry forward his signature energy policy to the parliament because he lacked the requisite internal support to deliver it.

The prime minister of Australia declared himself a hostage of a group of wreckers from the Liberal party’s conservative wing. That’s the first thing he did. He showed his opponents and the voters his weakness. He called a press conference to confirm his own capitulation.

In the process of declaring himself their captive, the prime minister willingly unveiled Tony Abbott and Peter Dutton’s energy policy for them. That was the second thing he did. If we were at a tennis tournament, the umpire would be declaring game, set and match.

The conservative wreckers have pursued the following objectives over recent weeks: kill the national energy guarantee, train the government’s focus on reducing power prices through whatever heavy-handed measures that takes, and construct a partisan fight with Labor at the next federal election.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2018/aug/20/canberras-d...

 

Turnbull only survived the last election because The Sydney Morning Herald did a turn-coat and pushed Malcolm's barrow — and got him "one extra vote". I hope that the boffins who are now selling out the SMH to channel nine realise what they did... Well? Not really, the CEO still drives his Maserati... 

A note to our prime minister: you can’t have an energy policy that assumes that climate change does not exist. By dumping the commitment to take emissions targets to the federal parliament the PM is signalling climate change is not real. This leaves the rest of us paying the price for another political capitulation on cleaning up our power sector.

Some parts of the government don’t believe in climate change. Their ideological ties to the coal-based power systems built 40 to 50 years ago has scuttled every attempt to develop credible climate change energy policy over the past 10 years, leaving us where we are now.

In the real world, climate change continues. We look out our windows or watch our TV screens and see droughts spreading, bushfires raging and heatwaves becoming more and more extreme.

In the boardrooms of power companies, directors see new renewable energy capacity outstripping investments in fossil fuels on a global scale. In 2017 new global capacity in solar photovoltaic (PV) alone exceeded new capacity of coal, gas and nuclear energy combined. These same investors understand that the cost of clean energy is falling dramatically. Even here in Australia, renewable energy is now the cheapest form of new power generation, despite what the coal lobby might say.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/20/malcolm-turnbulls...

 

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It would take a 'miracle' to save Malcolm Turnbull

The constitutional cloud hanging over Peter Dutton won't be enough to help the PM keep his job.

• by Peter Hartcher

Dutton could be ineligible to sit in Parliament

The report adds a dangerous new dimension to the leadership speculation gripping the Turnbull government. 

• by Michael Koziol, Kylar Loussikian & Dana McCauley

'The obvious choice': Tony Abbott is the Coalition's only hope

Peter Dutton is not the answer to the government's woes. The former prime minister is the only proven election winner inside the Coalition.

• by Catherine McGregor

How Abbott's supporters have used the media in quest to destroy PM

Why operate in the shadows when you can command airtime on radio, or when your former chief of staff has her own TV show.

Here we go... The cartoon from Cathy Wilcox explains what Australia is all about: smoke and power...


So, because Trumble is a "whimp" with the spine of an earthworm and the vision of a blind mole, Australia is back on the "Liberal (CONservative)" road towards returning (going backwards in reverse gear) to an ignominious turd who lies more than MacMahon and has the dangerous religious convictions of Santamaria's grinder monk(ey) with no scientifc understanding of any sorts— OR a police supremo neo-fascist who may have been ineligible to parliament and nearly makes Hitler look good with razor wire. 
And these mad clowns run this fair country while knifing each others... Any other country, and there would have been at last ten revolutions about the situation. But the Aussie character, based on betting on two flies on a window pane on a hot day, is stoic (unless it's carelessness). Anyone who voted for malcolm did us, and the Australian and worldy future, a disservice. Labor may not be ideal, but it certainly would have been a less embarrassing affair. 

Malcolm Turnbull has beaten Peter Dutton 48-35 in a snap Liberal leadership spill.

Key points:

• Mr Dutton has resigned from the frontbench
• Some Liberals also expect other frontbenchers to quit the ministry
• Just yesterday the Prime Minister said he had Mr Dutton's support

 

The Prime Minister forced his rival to show his hand by declaring all leadership positions vacant as soon as the party room meeting started this morning.

Mr Turnbull won the vote and his deputy Julie Bishop was the only candidate for her role.

But the result is so narrow it is set to create ongoing problems for the Government.

Mr Dutton has now resigned from his Home Affairs portfolio, creating a big gap in Cabinet that Mr Turnbull will have to fill.

However the ABC understands that despite Mr Dutton challenging him for the leadership, Mr Turnbull later offered his rival the chance to stay on.

 

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-21/malcolm-turnbull-survives-leadersh...

 

We can breathe now a bit of fresh air — away from the formaldehyde of Dutton as he has resigned from his Home Affairs portfolio...

 

And bhy the whay I huse the whord whimp rhather than wimp... This is to stress the connection between whimper and wimp, being the accumulation of painful loonitudes in the longitudinal expressions of the mad politics in this fair country that has more natural resources that Venezuela but where the political rot is hundred times worse, as the zombies of the moribund Lhibherhal party eat each others... At least in Venezuela, you can wipe your butt cheaper with banknotes than with toilet paper...

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Premierminister gewinnt Kampfabstimmung knapp

Der australische Premierminister übersteht ein parteiinternes Votum über seine Zukunft. Der umstrittene Einwanderungsminister des Landes unterliegt - und tritt zurück. Ob damit allerdings Ruhe einkehrt, ist fraglich. mehr... [ Forum ]

Malcolm Turnbull's prime ministership remains vulnerable after a flurry of late-night resignations from senior ministers, and reports more Liberals are switching allegiances to Peter Dutton.

Key points:

• Senior ministers Greg Hunt and Steve Ciobo offer resignations
• Peter Dutton has resigned from frontbench
• Nationals MPs warn against meddling in Liberal party affairs

 

The ABC understands Health Minister Greg Hunt and Trade Minister Steve Ciobo are the latest frontbenchers to offer their resignations, but they have not been accepted.

Mr Dutton continues to keep pressure on Mr Turnbull by refusing to rule out another challenge, with his supporters saying one is likely at some stage in the future.

International Development Minister Concetta Fierravanti-Wells has resigned and fired a parting shot, accusing the Government of straying too far to the left.

Another five junior ministers have also offered their resignations, creating a reshuffle headache for Mr Turnbull should he accept their offers.

 

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-22/malcolm-turnbull-leadership-crisis...

 

We knew from the start that Malcolm was not the cheese he claimed to be, but we also know that all the rotten rats that are leaving his primal shift are the most repugnant megalomaniacs in a party of rabid psychopathic megalomaniacs. None of them could be trusted at face value.

 

So, where to now? Apparently someone suggested that Julie Bishop could take over and scare the Labor Party into shitting in its underpants. Defeating Dutton would be a breeze at the next elections, defeating the "cockroach" would be more difficult. Mind you, if shove comes to push... see: 

travelling love at the crown's expense...

 

So, where to now? So, where to now? So, where to now?... How come a country like Australia is in such a bloody mess? Should I feel guilty about it? Bugger orf.

 

Malcolm's only choice is to call a snap election and let the rabid psychopathic megalomaniacs in "his" party (he paid big bucks to stay top cheese) run their dog-eat-dog natural course, in defeat... otherwise things will get uglier and uglier, not only for the Libs (CONservatives) but for this fair country.

Come on Malcolm, put your beige cardigan on and go visit that royalist Governor General and change the course of Australian history for the better.