Headlines Wednesday 26th November

Read Keating on our newest MP - Robertson - here
Piers Akerman
Former PM Paul Keating’s barbed tongue is legendary - I can’t help but feel that if it weren’t for party politics the power co. would have been sold for over $60 billion in the mid ‘90s .. but Carr didn’t want the Greiner/Fahey administration to look good.
In many ways, Keating breathtakingly ignores that he is the one responsible for the problems. - ed.
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Questions a-plenty on global warming
Piers Akerman
ONE of ABC television’s remaining links to a more intelligent era, The Einstein Factor, ended its season on Sunday, closing with its signature quote from the great physicist: “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” - Andrew Bolt likes to describe the Governments intended action of 2010 on Global Warming as the world’s longest political suicide note. Yet the conglomerate which worked to achieve ALP victory may well achieve the outcome Rudd yearns.
Rudd wants the affirmation that he is popular.
I don’t think it appropriate that the mentally ill be so treated by the public.
We are not so wealthy as to be able to cripple our industry so as to assuage the whims and fancies of such a pathetic creature.
However, let’s imagine for a moment that Rudd is rolled prior to 2010. Whomever is leading the ALP at that time may well stay the course because the ALP are locked into the policy politically. It is a wedge issue. To deny Global warming is to not be ALP.
The ALP have shown in NSW that successive leaders can carry on bad administration. - ed.
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What’s stolen is Luhrmann’s mind
Andrew Bolt
Barack Obama was abandoned by his black father and raised by his white mother. Just a typical candidate for Australia’s “stolen generations” policy, claims fact-challenged Baz Luhrmann, on his crusade to sell Australia as a tourism destination:

AUSTRALIA’S shameful past has again been brought to the world’s attention with filmmaker Baz Luhrmann linking US President-elect Barack Obama and the stolen generations…

“The President-elect of the United States is 47. If he was living in Australia, it is absolutely credible that the government, because he had one white parent and one black parent, could have taken him forcibly from his family,” Luhrmann said.
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Beatty would hate it
Andrew Bolt
A healthy sign - and let’s hope it screens at our own universities:

Russia’s resuscitated movie industry has produced a string of films - several of them major box-office and critical flops - that glorify the country’s past.

But “Admiral” is the first to canonize a figure who fought the founders of the Soviet state.
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If they can’t predict the next season….
Andrew Bolt
All right, let’s see how good they are at predicting weather just three months ahead:

IT might not have been a warm spring in many places around Australia, but forecaster have said today we should expect a long, hot summer ahead. The Bureau of Meteorology… is predicting warmer than normal daytime temperatures for Victoria, Tasmania, southern South Australia and northern Queensland.
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Stop the warming! Ban Coke!
Andrew Bolt
Reader J from Melbourne wonders why global warming crusaders still drink Coke. Or beer. Or any soft drink also aerated with carbon dioxide - the gas we’re told is heating the world to hell. Read below the results of J’s fascinating investigation - involving everything from Mentos to the Internet. But some highlights:

(I)f carbon dioxide is so “bad” for the planet then how much is released each day when you pull the ring pull on a can of Coca-Cola? ... One 375ml can of Coca Cola contains 1.4 litres of Carbon Dioxide…
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Judge by what they do
Andrew Bolt
He’s perfectly right, of course, because how can you talk away the difference between two Gods?

In comments on Sunday that could have broad implications in a period of intense religious conflict, Pope Benedict XVI cast doubt on the possibility of interfaith dialogue but called for more discussion of the practical consequences of religious differences.
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Bush made him mean
Andrew Bolt
Tobias Wolff is the authentic voice of the Left - a tribalist who accepts no personal responsibility for his sheer nastiness:

When I see someone being rude to a waiter, or blocking the road in a Ford Expedition, or yakking loudly on a cell phone in a crowded elevator, I naturally assume they voted for George W. Bush. And - this is really mean, I know, really unfair and unreasonable and inhumane, and I scold myself for this, believe me, but - when a tornado tears off a few roofs in Texas, I think, serves you right! And I have friends in Texas. That’s some of what the last seven years have done to this writer.
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Not Thailand, too?
Andrew Bolt
it would be an utter tragedy if beautiful Thailand, too, now slides into the growing list of countries too unstable for mass tourism:
Anti-government protesters stormed Bangkok’s main international airport and gunfire broke out on the streets of the Thai capital overnight as a campaign to oust Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat turned violent. Authorities canceled all flights out of Suvarnabhumi Airport, hub for Thailand’s lucrative tourist industry, stranding thousands of travellers…
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We need nukes
Andrew Bolt
Ziggy Switkowski says 31 countries already have nuclear power - and Australia will suffer if it doesn’t stop mindlessly opposing the power source of any green future:

Our policy architects suggest there is no future scenario that will require nuclear power in Australia but:

* Deep greenhouse gas emission reductions will almost certainly prove beyond the capability of existing technologies and renewable energy platforms to deliver in the time allowed. The inclusion of nuclear power will be critical to our success.
* Our lights will start to go out as investment in clean baseload energy generation stalls in an uncertain regulatory environment and the nuclear alternative is not validated.

* In a carbon-constrained future, nuclear-powered economies will exploit their cost advantages for clean energy in competing with Australian products newly burdened by embedded carbon costs.
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Taken for a ride
Andrew Bolt
A Victorian tribunal gives an African refugee a chance:

AN insane killer who stabbed his wife to death has won the right to drive a taxi but passengers are not allowed to know his identity.
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Healthier statistics
Andrew Bolt
Good news as another statistic used to shame Australia proves dodgy:

The much-cited 17-year difference in life expectancy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people is under a cloud and under review. New estimates put it closer to 11 or 12 years.

Add to that the claims that Aboriginal prisoners were more likely to die in custody, 100,000 Aboriginal children were stolen and many hundreds of Aborigines were deliberately massacred in Tasmania.
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Join the dam dots
Andrew Bolt
TOO little water in Melbourne; too much in Gippsland. Do I really need to join the dots for the Brumby Government?

Understand at last, guys? Just build that damn dam - and two problems become one cheap solution.

The Government’s water policy always was a joke, but never as big a one as it was on Monday.

On the very day the Government warned Melburnians to use even less water, or else, the Bureau of Meteorology issued a flood warning on the Mitchell River.
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Ramsay burns his award
Andrew Bolt
GORDON Ramsay has done us a small favour, and deserves a helping in return.

No, the favour he performed wasn’t bonking “professional mistress” Sarah Symonds, or inspiring journalists to invent such a useful euphemism for her kiss-and-sell kind.

The celebrity chef deserves our thanks instead for finally making inedible the fraud that is the “Father of the Year” award.
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Julia Gillard a Rudd like mistake
Julia Gillard hasn't been tagged for putting a foot wrong since becoming deputy PM and picking up two key portfolios - but she may be in some trouble with her new IR legislation, according to Alan Jones.