Bahnisch: Liberals fight over their own soulThe CPRS battles within the Liberal party have nothing to do with good public policy or climate change, says Mark Bahnisch — it’s a contest over the spoils of opposition and the ideological direction of the party itself.
Nick Minchin
Turnbull’s climate crunch is coming
Malcolm Turnbull’s only real option is to reject Rudd’s CPRS and hand victory to Minchin and his colleagues.
Crabb: Kate “the Trellis” Ellis vs. Hulk Hogan
Yesterday, Sports Minister Kate Ellis arm-wrestled with pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan. No really; it was for charity. And the undercard bout between Nick ”the Refrigerator” Minchin and Malcolm “the Merchant Banker” Turnbull was just as vicious, reports Annabel Crabb.
Tanner: “Paranoid” Minchin’s conspiracy theories need to end
Senator Nick Minchin’s suggestion that climate change is all some global left-wing communist conspiracy is undermining serious negotiations between the Government and Opposition on emissions trading, writes MP Lindsay Tanner.
Minchin won’t cross the floor on emissions
Senator Nick Minchin may be the Coalition’s most outspoken critic of emissions trading emissions trading, but he will vote for it if it’s that is the party room’s decision.
Coalition at war
The Coalition has descended into new levels of chaos over emissions trading, with a pack of 17 rebels getting behind Senator Nick Minchin as he slammed the scheme in Parliament yesterday, and even Tony Abbott now reneging his support.
Crikey Says: Minchin destroys the Liberal Party to save it
Nick Minchin’s appearance onn Four Corners last week was a calculated performance by one of the country’s shrewdest political tacticians who knew precisely how the media and his colleagues would react.
A radioactive issue for the Coalition?
Why has Ian Macfarlane completely reversed his opinion on Carbon Capture and Storage — from such a strong advocate of the when in government to his recent denunciation on Four Corners? asks Michael James.
Mungo MacCallum: Minchin has no excuse for his ignorance
The most depressing statistic of modern times is the one that tells us that well over 50% of adult Americans do not believe in evolution. Or it was — until Nick Minchin came along.
Rundle: Don’t Minchin the heat
Nick Minchin’s remarks that climate change is just another stage in the anti-industrial campaigns of the Left shows what ancient paranoic nonsense the climate change sceptics are working off, says Guy Rundle.
Watch the 4 Corners report: Malcolm and the malcontents
Watch the ABC’s 4 Corners report that exposed the Coalition’s deep divisions over the issue of climate change and caused further rifts within the party.
Maiden: “Fruit Loop” Minchin and the Coalition’s climate sceptics
Nick Minchin and the rest of the Coalition’s climate-sceptic cabal didn’t just open up to the ABC’s 4 Corners to stick it to Rudd: they genuinely believe climate change is a left-wing conspiracy, writes Samantha Maiden.
Why the Opposition is stuffed
The Federal Opposition nearly managed to get through an entire sitting week last week without making themselves the issue, says Bernard Keane. Nearly. But Nick Minchin and Barnaby Joyce had other ideas.
No happy endings for Coalition after Minchin’s stance on Telstra
Nick Minchin may succeed in delaying Stephen Conroy’s Telstra break-up Bill. But he is painting the Coalition into a corner on Telstra and it’s not going to end well.
A new Liberal climate position: the Minchin line
Climate change is being used by the Government to wedge the Opposition mercilessly, in far more savage a fashion than John Howard ever managed to do to Labor on refugees or national security.
Crikey Says: A study in alternative realities
Compare the meeting last week in Oxford of the world’s most eminent climate scientists with the divided mess of Australia’s parliament, with disagreements over the CPRS and Copenhagen.
Crikey wrap: Twitter tears up over NBN announcement
Rudd’s surprise announcement this morning that a new company, National Broadband Network Corporation, will be created to build the new Broadband network, has sent the twitterverse aflutter.
Left and lefter: Keane v Sparrow on political racism
There’s a lazy snobbery reflected in the assertion that our major political parties are casually racist, writes Bernard Keane.
This year the cut and thrust of the Budget is for real
This will be the toughest budget to frame since, probably, the recession budgets of the early 1990s, writes Bernard Keane.
Kruddiversary: The internet thanks you for 12 months of achieving nothing
One year on, precisely none of the NBN has been built. The Cyber-Safety Plan is trialling (again) unworkable internet filters while Senator Conroy accuses everyone of being a pervert, writes Stilgherrian.
Don’t laugh, Terria, this is serious
One of the would-be-builders of the national broadband network (NBN), Terria, is in trouble, writes AntiGeek.
Minchin heads down broadcasting deregulation path
New shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin is weighing into the broadcasting deregulation debate, like every other newcomer to the portfolio, writes Bernard Keane.
Turnbull’s front bench: clash of the chihuahuas
When it comes to female ministerial representation, the conservative side has lifted its game. 7 of Labor’s 30 ministers are women, compared to 7 of 32 on the Coalition side, writes Bernard Keane.
Minchin’s Liberals forget the Senate rules
Nick Minchin, in what appears an appalling knowledge of precedent and tradition, last week convinced his colleagues not to offer a candidate for the position of Senate President, writes Noel Crichton-Browne.
