In a spot of eloquent white-anting from the back bench, Malcolm Turnbull takes to his blog to slag off Tony Abbott and his climate change policy plans. The Opposition leader has lost his integrity and the Liberals can’t be trusted, says Turnbull.
December, 2009
Possum: No bounce for Abbott
Tony Abbott’s polling in today’s Newspoll is the worst debut result of any Opposition leader that has taken control of the party mid-term, says Possum Comitatus: it’s pretty safe to declare “no Newspoll bounce”.
15 of the worst predictions ever
From Thatcher’s 1969 prediction that there’d never be a British female PM in her lifetime, to the then-IBM chairman’s estimate that there was a world market for “maybe five computers” in 1943, predictions about the future that failed miserably.
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Behind the surge: How Obama made the most important decision of his career
And extensive behind-the-scenes look from the NYT on the three months of meetings, analysis, debate and deliberation that led Barack Obama to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Crabb: Can the jock beat the nerd?
It’s a classic school yard politics up in Canberra at the moment, writes Annabel Crabb, with head jock Tony Abbott now Opposition leader and wanting the geek’s job of school captain.
The Copenhagen cheat sheet
The Daily Beast’s user’s guide to the Copenhagen conference and the state of the climate change debate: the players, the deniers, the forecasts and the Climategate fallout.
Jared Diamond: How big business can save the planet
It’s a misconception that big businesses only care about profits and don’t care about the planet, says Jared Diamond. In fact, companies like Coca-Cola and Chevron have a lot to offer the fight against climate change.
Gorbachev: Let’s avoid the global hangover from a failed, messy Copenhagen
It’s time for leaders to come forward at Copenhagen and just get things done, writes former Soviet Union president, Mikhail Gorbachev. Industrialised nations need plans based on science, not watered down vested interests, and should take the lead over developing countries.
56 newspapers, one message on climate change
Today, 56 major newspapers around the world will publish the one editorial — albeit in 20 different languages — calling for action on climate change ahead of Copenhagen summit.
UK Met publish 150 years of climate data to silence sceptics
With the stolen “Climategate” emails igniting anti-climate-change hysteria around the world and Copenhagen about to begin, the British Met Office has announced it will publish 150 years of climate data to prove temperatures have indeed increased.
Milne: Suffer in your jocks, Catherine Deveny: Chadstone loves Abbott
Green-voting social commentators like The Age’s Catherine Deveny may mock Tony Abbott and the Melbourne suburban heartland of Chadstone, but they both proved her wrong in the weekend’s by-elections, says Glenn Milne.
Rundle: Time for the liberals to break-away from the Liberals
The Liberal Party has disintegrated into two very distinct groups, says Guy Rundle: Abbott’s old-style parochial moralisers, and urban small-l wets. The two couldn’t have less in common, and would be better served as two separate parties.
Shanahan: Newspoll, by-elections vindicate Abbott
Electing Tony Abbott as leader was a huge gamble for the Libs, but it’s paid off, with solid wins in the weekend’s by-elections, and some promising new polling figures out today suggesting voters are returning back to the Coalition, says Dennis Shanahan.
Newspoll: Libs, Abbott up
The first heavy duty opinion poll of the Tony Abbott era shows the Liberal Party’s primary vote up 3 points, and Abbott up 9 points as preferred PM on Turnbull’s polling last week, reports William Bowe.
The US hasn’t had any good bin Laden intel in years
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has admitted the government hasn’t had any good intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden “in years”. So where the bloody hell is he?
Wright: Tony Abbott: more than just a humourless right-wing zealot
Don’t write Tony Abbott off as simply a one-dimensional conservative just yet, says Tony Wright: like most political high-achievers before him, there is likely a lot more than meets the eye.
Copenhagen for dummies
Enviro blog Grist has written a “cheat sheet” to explain the basics of Copenhagen and the whole climate debate. Yes, it’s simplistic, but it’s quick, funny and straight-forward enough for any dummy to understand.
Will the Climategate emails ruin Copenhagen?
Will the controversial climate change emails hacked from the University of East Anglia help the public learn more about the subject, or give governments an excuse not to act?
Hartcher: How Abbott really won
No-one in the Liberal Party actually expected Tony Abbott to become leader — not even Abbott himself, explains Peter Hartcher. It only happened because Joe Hockey buggered it all up.
Antony Green’s by-election liveblog
Swings, misses and the mystery of Toork West: relive the Bradfield and Higgins by-elections, as they happened, with ABC wonk-in-residence, Antony Green
Follow #byelection on Twitter Libs take Higgins and Bradfield
The Liberal Party easily retained the seats of Bradfield and Higgins in the weekend’s Federal by-elections. Relive all the thrills and spills with Poll Bludger William Bowe.
PHOTO GALLERY: Portraits of the powerful
An incredible series of world leader portraits — including audio about each subject’s photo — by Platon of The New Yorker, taken during the latest sitting of the UN General Assembly.
Bartholomeusz: Go west! Where Europe’s skies are blue
Europe is figuring out exit paths for all their emergency economic measures taken during the GFC. The US isn’t and they need to learn from Europe: less short term profits, more long term stability, writes Stephen Bartholomeuz.
