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.
Reality check: Finding the serious browsers
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People serious about their politics clearly click onto The Australian. The website of the national daily tops the rankings in the Crikey survey of Politically Interested Readers compiled from data in the last seven of Crikey’s Daily Reality Checks. Now the readers of The Oz might not agree with all the sentiments expressed in it (see Australian polls poles apart in Crikey earlier this month) but they consistently have more election stories in their top five most read list than any other of the 10 media sites we monitor. Only the ABC comes close to having the same political interest. No wonder the Fairfax broadsheets are in the throes of abandoning the serious format for a smaller size if their website readers are anything to go by. The Sydney Morning Herald does not even beat the Adelaide Advertiser which saw the light years ago and became a tabloid.
The media websites this morning showed the same pattern as the last week with The Australian and the ABC having two election stories in their top five. The West Australian and news.com.au lived up to their lowly rankings by containing none. The West, however, has come to the rescue by giving detailed coverage of this morning’s Prime Ministerial walk complete with pictures of John Howard in shorts surrounded by his entourage of body guards. Mr Howard, the story said, went for his early morning walk along the banks of the Swan River, listening to a recording of an ad for a local Liberal candidate. Apparently the Liberal Party’s advance people had done at least part of their job properly for the ad, attacking Labor’s links with the trade unions and written to the tune of Click Go The Shears, was played to Mr Howard on a portable ghetto blaster by two primary school children. What the spinners could not control was the contact with a Labor supporter walking his dog who cheerily told Team Howard: “You’re going down guys - all the way to the gutter.” Sydney Morning Herald
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