But Greens leader Christine Milne was not as quick to celebrate the Chinese president's leadership.

In a letter Ms Milne handed to Mr Xi after his parliamentary speech, she raised concerns about human rights, the protest movement in Hong Kong, and political prisoners.

"I request that you release from prison, Dr Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was sentenced for his role in drafting and co-signing a peaceful statement appealing for political reform, which was signed by tens of thousands of people. I also request that you release his wife, Liu Xia, from house arrest," Ms Milne wrote.

However, Ms Milne also commended Mr Xi for his action on climate change.

read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-18/praise-for-chinese-president/5898212

Meanwhile at the middle brain confusion:

He [Abbott] was summing up the day's developments after the two nations reached agreement on a free trade deal and a speech by Mr Xi to parliament, when he appeared to confuse the island state with the Asian nation.

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"To mark President Xi's visit, Australia and Tasmania and, and – we've said a lot about Tasmania – Australia and China have reached agreements.

"It's hard to confuse Tasmania and China - but I have," Mr Abbott said, jokingly shrugging off the error.

President Xi is due to visit Hobart on Tuesday, after which he will have been to every Australian state and territory.

Mr Abbott also used the dinner to praise the president's "remarkable" speech in parliament.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-confuses-china-with-tasmania-while-toasting-president-xi-jinping-20141118-11omgq.html#ixzz3JMoJsz00

 

As the US and China join the overwhelming number of scientists who believe climate change requires an urgent response, it's time for the Prime Minister to acknowledge he got it wrong, writes John Hewson.

Tony Abbott's intransigence on climate change, stating emphatically that he will not join significant global leaders in seeking to accelerate the global response to the challenge, has echoes of John Howard's refusal to say "sorry" to Indigenous Australians.

Howard rarely admitted to making mistakes, and he was sorry for very little, during his political career. Most conspicuously, despite the moral imperative, and mounting evidence of its significance to the process of reconciliation, he consistently refused to make a national apology to our Aboriginal people.

Having initially essentially ruled it out, in little more than an off the cuff response, he then dug in on the issue, despite ministerial and cabinet pressure to reverse his stand, stubbornly maintaining his defence of the indefensible, rather than admit that he had made a mistake.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-18/hewson-time-for-an-apology-on-climate-change/5898552

See toon at top...

 

Tony Abbott has called on countries to set strong binding emissions reductions targets at next year's major climate conference in Paris, warning the world cannot afford another disappointment like the Copenhagen summit in 2009.

And after years of arguing that Australia should only move faster once major polluters also moved, he has now described climate change as "an important subject"  and one "the world needs to tackle as a whole". 

The declaration followed one-on-one talks with his French counterpart, President Francois Hollande, in Canberra ranging across trade, security and the need for binding emissions targets. 

But he said individual country commitments to reduce carbon pollution must not come at the expense of jobs and growth or they will inevitably fail.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/abbott-finds-his-french-connection-on-emission-controls-20141119-11pq9s.html#ixzz3JVZRYYHN
NO TONY Turdy... Even if jobs and growth aren't there, the commitment to reduce emissions WON'T FAIL... You always have to add more salt to the sauce, don't you, Turdy?... Yes, LIP SERVICE does not cost much when you place CAVEATS ON  your comic impression of a CONservative fake CONservationist...

 

Did I hear Turdy Tony mention the "12 ships" of the first fleet when he claimed SYDNEY WAS JUST BUSH?

Well, this would be another idiotic corker for the stupid bottler if I heard right:

 

 

First Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

The First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships which left Great Britain on 13 May 1787 to found a penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia....

 

SEE ALSO: "the tasmanian solution" revisited by the "liberals" (CONservatives)...

 

From Victoria Rollison

Weird and graceless. Shorten’s description of Abbott’s G20 address to world leaders was spot on. We all know that Abbott doesn’t perform well at public speaking. And we never expected him to say anything inspiring, intelligent or even informative at the G20. It’s not like he was going to admit he’d been wrong about climate policy and could Obama and Xi Jinping please help him to fix his faults. No, what we expected was for him to be uninspiring, unintelligent, and to say not much at all. Like he usually does. Because let’s face it, we’re used to three word slogans repeated slowly, spread out amongst ahh, err, arh, urms ad nauseam. But that’s not what we got from Abbott yesterday. Surprisingly, we got worse than this. Which is why it’s worth taking a closer look at what he actually did say.

The closest I’ve seen to criticism of the speech from the mainstream media, who surprisingly unwrapped Abbott from his Teflon coated bubble wrap for a millisecond to give him some negative feedback, was that the speech was more suited for a domestic audience than a meeting of world leaders. This is true, but was by far the least worst thing about what Abbott actually said. As a member of that domestic audience for whom the speech was apparently targeted, I found it highly offensive. Not just partisan, immature, whingey, unbecoming of a Prime Minister, badly delivered and embarrassing to the country. Look at what he actually said and I think you’ll be offended too:

‘Two issues in particular that I lay before my colleague leaders: we have tried to deregulate higher education, universities, and that’s going to mean less central government spending and effectively more fees that students will have to pay. We think that this will free up our universities to be more competitive amongst themselves and more competitive internationally but students never like to pay more.’

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Pyne’s argument was that deregulation of university fees would make fees less expensive? Pyne has also argued that his policy is a ‘good deal’ for students, although this was clearly never the case. How is it a good deal to be paying more for something and having to pay interest you previously didn’t pay, whilst getting the exact same product you used to get? But the point is, Abbott’s government always argued that this policy was about improving the university sector – not about balancing the budget. Yet yesterday, Abbott was using this policy failure (let’s call a spade a spade that has failed to get through the Senate) as one of the reasons he’s finding those revolting peasants in his kingdom so terribly hard to force into line. Because students ‘never like to pay more’. Apparently Abbott’s budget woes are nothing to do with his and Hockey’s incompetence and are instead apparently all university students’ fault and their sense of entitlement that they should be able to get an education without taking out a mortgage on their future. An education, by the way, that benefits the long term economic success of Abbott’s precious economy. Not that Abbott seems to be able to put two and two together in this way. Abbott hadn’t finished yet though, because it wasn’t just the students who were to blame. It was also the sick.

‘The other reform that has proven very, very difficult for us is to try to inject more price signals into our health system. For a long time most Australians who went to see a doctor have been seen at no charge and we would like to see a $7 co-payment for people who are going to see the doctor. In most countries this is not unusual. In most countries, this is standard that the doctor can charge a fee, but it is proving to be massively difficult to get this particular reform through the Parliament.’

Those pesky sick people and their sense of entitlement that they should be treated in a health system that they pay for through their taxes that was set up to look after all Australians from cradle to the grave. How dare these revolting peasants think they should be able to see a doctor for free when they are sick! But at the heart of this whole argument is that a ‘price-signal’ (you know, like the carbon tax was a price signal to reduce carbon pollution) will reduce visits to the doctor, and will therefore reduce the cost of this universal health sector, which is funded by Australians through our tax system. The only way this could ever possibly be the case is if Abbott believes that Australians aren’t really sick and are actually just whingey hypochondriacs who need to be put off from their whingey hypochondria through a price signal. Or, his government believes that poor people who can’t afford the $7 co-payment should put up with being sick and shouldn’t be treated for ailments that could become much worse if not treated, such as lumps that can become a range of life threatening cancers or a heart problem that could easily be treated before it becomes catastrophic heart failure. Perhaps Abbott would prefer the poor just died without costing his budget any money. See why I felt offended? I was also frustrated that Abbott forgot to mention that his great-big-GP-tax was not actually going to be used to fund a budget surplus. It was being used for a $20 billion research fund for use by the private research sector. At the same time as Abbott is cutting the apparently wasteful CSIRO. Funny the small facts Abbott chose to leave out of his grand whinge.

But ultimately, if you were really listening, you’ll have heard that it wasn’t just the students and the sick and hypochondriac Australians who are to blame for Abbott’s inability to fulfil one of his apparent four core promises to ‘get the Budget under control’. Because right up front, Abbott said this:

‘…it doesn’t matter what spending programme you look at, it doesn’t matter how wasteful that spending programme might appear, there are always some people in the community who vote, who love that programme very much’.

Get that people? It’s all of us voters who are so stupidly in love with government spending on programs that are just a complete waste of government spending. It’s all our fault that Abbott can’t balance his books! Us stupid voters refuse to let him send a wrecking ball through our civilised society that we have spent generations building! How dare we block his wrecking ball!

So yes, I was offended, as a member of the domestic audience that was the true target market for this speech. But once I had calmed down and thought about it for a moment, I realised that I was also incredibly proud of Australians. Abbott can blame us all he likes. But the fact of the matter is that the worst of Abbott’s budget – the parts that hit the most vulnerable hardest – like the GP co-payment, like Pyne’s assault on the higher education sector – are being blocked by our democratically elected leaders in the Labor Party, the Greens, various independents and low and behold, the Palmer United Party. So we might be dumb enough to elect Abbott in the first place, but I hope the world leaders, and those across the world who may have been tuning in, can see we’re not dumb enough to let him wreck the place, no matter how hard he might be trying.

http://victoriarollison.com/2014/11/16/what-abbott-actually-said/

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Turdy Tony could never be trusted... He talks shit and does exactly the opposite crap with bottomless hypocrisy. He has the meaningless wing span of a dodo bird and buries his head in concrete like an ostrich would. Tony Turdy's Idiocy has now reached stratospheric demeaning of depravity lunacy and delusion. With Tony leading this country towards shit-hell or dante's Scheiße , my good people, it's raining shit shit shit shit, even on a clear day like today in Sydney where the Western burbs could experience temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius (113 F).