[LINK] Tony pulls it off!

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Roger et.al.link write,

> At 13:56 +1100 1/12/09, Robin Whittle wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately the negative repercussions will now extend directly
> > to the global effort to control greenhouse gas emissions.
> 
> The Liberal rejection of the Bill might be the *best* thing that 
> could have happened to climate change policy in Australia.


Agreed sigh, & maybe the best thing for an expanded *eGovernment* system.

If so many Australians support something, why can Gov systems block this?

If bill-proposals needed all-Aussie support, rather than dirty corporates
with powerful lobbies, one imagines the results might be much fairer, and
possibly, new laws passed in this way may even be greeted with enthuasism.

Cheers,
Stephen

> A scenario:
> 
> (1)  the greatly enlarged corporate welfare component that the 
> Liberal Party had negotiated out of the Rudd Government falls off the 
> table
> 
> (2)  Labor sees no prospect of getting a Bill through the new, 
> ultra-Blue Opposition, and sees inadequate benefit in a 
> double-dissolution
> 
> (3)  Rudd doesn't want to see his world leadership ambitions thwarted
> 
> (4)  Labor switches to negotiating with the Greens
> 
> (5)  the recession eases, and public support enables Labor to 
> withstand the second round of dirty lobbying by industry groups
> 
> (6)  a much less compromised ETS results
> 
> Okay, there are quite a few 'if's, but much more ridiculous things 
> than that have happened in politics (in the last 48 hours, for 
> example).
> 
> 
> [So there.  That'll learn people to write me off as the unholy issue 
> of Jeremiah and Cassandra]
> 
> [Note that I haven't changed my positions that (1) the science of 
> climate change is pretty wobbly - e.g. 'radiative forcing', and (2) 
> an ETS *may*-not-*will* have the intended effect.]
> 
> [Is this relevant to link?  Well, an ETS is inevitably an on-line 
exchange]
> 
> 
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