| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||
|
Many areas of regional Australia are suffering financially and emotionally because of the drought.
While we have had welcome rains across Australia in recent weeks, many parts of the country have had two dry years. Though we hope and pray for the best, we are responding to the urgency of the situation.
Earlier today, Barnaby Joyce and I announced a $320 million drought support package. This will assist drought-affected farm businesses and families to deal with immediate financial pressures – as well as improve their capacity to recover when the drought breaks.
We are a government determined to stand by the people of Australia in good times and bad.
The drought package announced today includes:
- More generous criteria for accessing income support to be made available to farmers.
- Drought Concessional Loans totalling $280 million to give eligible farm businesses the resources to recover from the effects of drought.
- $12 million to be added to existing emergency water infrastructure schemes, including supplementing those in NSW and Queensland.
- $10.7 million to assist social and mental health services in communities affected by this drought.
The Government understands that farming is a very significant part of our economy and will play a critical role in our economic future.
Click here to find out more about our drought package.
Tony Abbott
Prime Minister
Today, you and I are winning. Kevin Rudd's ETS is gone. Julia Gillard's carbon tax is about to be repealed.
None of this would have happened without the Institute of Public Affairs and its members. But more needs to be done. Australia is still suffering under bad policies (like the renewable energy target) based on bad science.
I want the IPA to continue winning the climate change debate in this country. That's why I'm asking you to make a tax-deductible donation to the IPA today so they can bring together the world's biggest names on climate change.
The IPA needs your tax-deductible donation to publish a new book of research, Climate Change: The Facts 2014 featuring Andrew Bolt, Professor Bob Carter, James Delingpole, Donna Laframboise, Lord Nigel Lawson, Professor Richard Lindzen, Joanne Nova, Dr Patrick Michaels, Mark Steyn and Anthony Watts. I'll be writing a chapter too. I've already made a donation.
Here's what some of the contributors say about Climate Change: The Facts 2014:
"I salute what my friends at the IPA have done to make Australians start to see sense on climate change. The IPA's Climate Change: The Facts 2014 is a very important book."- Mark Steyn, contributor to Climate Change: The Facts 2014"This is a crucial year in the climate debate. Australia needs the IPA's Climate Change: The Facts 2014 so our politicians get to see the evidence - such as the failure of the planet to warm since 1998, and the immeasurably small effect Australia's global warming policies will actually have on world temperatures."- Andrew Bolt, contributor to Climate Change: The Facts 2014"At last people are making up their own mind about climate change - they can see the doomsayers are wrong!"- James Delingpole, contributor to Climate Change: The Facts 2014"Climate change alarmists have done a great disservice to the cause of rational scientific enquiry. Climate Change: The Facts 2014 is significant because it deals with the evidence."- Professor Stewart Franks, University of Tasmania, contributor to Climate Change: The Facts 2014
John Roskam has told me he'll send a copy of Climate Change: The Facts 2014 to every federal member of parliament. And he's also told me about all the IPA members and supporters who want to stand up and be counted on climate change. Which is why if they choose, every person who makes a tax-deductible donation of $400 or more will be acknowledged by name on the outside back cover of the book.
To make a tax-deductible donation to support Climate Change: The Facts 2014 just go tohttp://TheFacts2014.ipa.org.au today.
Ian Plimer
Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Author, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming - The Missing Science and How to Get Expelled from School: A guide to climate change for pupils, parents & punters
Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Author, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming - The Missing Science and How to Get Expelled from School: A guide to climate change for pupils, parents & punters
PS – To see the cover of Climate Change: The Facts 2014 and for your chance to help ensure it is published, click here.
===
|
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
February 26, 2014 / 26 AdarI 5774
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Received this from a friend? Subscribe .
===Events
- 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
- 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: the House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
- 1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
- 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county ofNottinghamshire.
- 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
- 1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
- 1902 – Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
- 1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
- 1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
- 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
- 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
- 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1964 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
- 2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
- 2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- 2007 – The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.
Births
- 272 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)
- 1689 – Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer (d. 1775)
- 1691 – Edward Cave, English publisher, founded The Gentleman's Magazine (d. 1754)
- 1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English businessman, founded Hazlehurst & Sons (d. 1842)
- 1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
- 1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress (d. 1928)
- 1890 – Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (d. 1933)
- 1891 – David Sarnoff, Belarusian-American businessman and journalist, founded RCA (d. 1971)
- 1902 – John Steinbeck, American author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1923 – Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor (d. 1990)
- 1929 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Ralph Nader, American lawyer, author, and activist
- 1936 – Ron Barassi, Australian footballer and coach
- 1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer
- 1957 – Robert de Castella, Australian runner
- 1979 – Andreas Voss, German footballer
- 1994 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
Deaths
- 640 – Pepin the Elder, Frankish Mayor of the Palace (b. c. 580)
- 1706 – John Evelyn, English author (b. 1620)
- 1892 – Louis Vuitton, French businessman, founded Louis Vuitton (b. 1821)
- 1902 – Breaker Morant, English-Australian soldier (b. 1864)
- 2002 – Spike Milligan, Indian-Irish comedian, actor, and author (b. 1918)
No comments:
Post a Comment