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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Talk about a phoney campaign! The meeja are almost giving the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition equal time, the Crikey/Media Monitors Top 20 for the week of 18-24 September shows. But before we look at the detail, do you feel a certain emptiness in your life? Is something missing? Of course. Look at the charts. Vale Peter Beattie, media tart. Filling the gap and racing up the charts this week is Labor education spokesman Stephen Smith, with his attack on university funding levels. Not so successful is Kevin Andrews, who falls six spots to Number 20 as his Claude Rains impersonation fails to impress the punters.
We’re told that some shadows are getting cocky and already recruiting ministerial staff. Perhaps they’ve seen that Kevin07 won this week’s talkback competition. They should take a reality check. He got the position off the back of his tax slip.
And we all know that politics is show business for ugly people. Show business conducted at Spinal Tap volumes. For our check with the rest of the world, here’s how its practitioners measure up against mime artistes:
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