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Wackydoodle sez: Wake up Mr. Murdoch, your yacht is docked on Wall Street!
Thanks to plutocrat Rupert Murdoch's billions Australia, once a world leader in enacting legislation to combat climate change, is now under the charge of a deeply unpopular Liberal-National coalition government, which is committed to making Australia king of coal in Asia. During a recent visit to Canada and the United States, Prime Minister Tony Abbot stood next to the Canadian PM and scoffed at the danger global warming poses to the world. Abbott has even called the science of climate change, "crap". At home he is on course to abolish the world's first legislated carbon price. Salon details the successful efforts of Murdoch-owned media to discredit the previous Labor government that succeeded in passing the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. The Australian conservative political campaign cribbed the Tea Party's tactics in the US. Polls show Tony Abbot to be the least popular prime minister in forty years. The record hot weather for May, normally a cool fall month down under, is not going to help his numbers. Australians are once again demanding action on climate legislation.
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BC Idonwanna sez; No worries, he already hot head!