The Greens oppose the CPRS not because it is too weak, but because it will point Australia in the wrong direction with little prospect of turning it around in the timeframe within which emissions must peak, says Senator Christine Milne.
The Tuesday Top 20
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Thank God for the Crikey/Media Monitors Tuesday Top 20! It’s about the only measure that gives John Howard a decent lead over Kevin Rudd.
Not that a high ranking is necessarily a sign of political health. The gormless Peter McGauran comes in at Number Three for the week of August 28-September 3, thanks to equine flu. Malcolm Turnbull is Number Four, thanks to the Geoffrey Cousins parasite.
The PM’s position on the Talkback Chart, however, seems under threat. The opposition leader is at Number One for the third week in a row. The PM has to make do with being Number Two, followed by a posse of premiers – mainly copping brickbats.
And there’s some further comfort for the PM. He’s shifty, he should have gone – but he scored many more media mentions last week than another devious moron:
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