Daily Telegraph Journalist Piers Ackerman is scathing of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudds first 12 months in office.
“A year in office and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s pre-election agenda is in tatters.
Australian schoolchildren don’t have their promised computers, FuelWatch is dead, GroceryWatch is dying and the states are not enjoying a new spirit of co-operation.
Signing Kyoto has done nothing but underscore the certainty that Labor’s insistence climate change is man-made will increase unemployment beyond the levels expected from the global financial mess.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s modelling, on which the overblown, apocalyptic Garnaut report is based, has been shot to pieces.
And the Treasury modelling on which the Government has based its planned emissions-trading scheme doesn’t take into account the current economic situation.
After condemning the Howard government for entering into unilateral agreements with other nations, and promising to concentrate on multilateral arrangements, it’s pursuing a unilateral free-trade agreement with China even though its recent handouts to the car industry – more on them later – make a mockery of any free-trade credentials.”
And he’s only just getting wound up. You can read the complete article here.
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