G’day Agmates – here is today’s interesting quick links.
Today’s National Weather | Weather Zone : A trough is triggering widespread rain and storms across the interior, and storms in southeast QLD. The trough separates hot northwesterly winds from cooler southerlies, leading to a warm day for eastern QLD and cool one for the southeast states.
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The opposition Unravels | Larvatus Prodeo : It’s been a shocker of a week for Malcolm Turnbull. We’ve had the Julie Bishop shenanigans, the missing deficit as a yardstick line, second guessing the Reserve Bank to argue that interest rates rises tanked the economy (which is an arguable point, but politically worthless when interest rates have been rapidly falling), a Nationals revolt, losing Fiona Nash from the frontbench, the embarrassment of Christopher Pyne’s arguments being repudiated by the private schools sector and a major win for Julia Gillard, and the revival of Howardism on mandatory detention and border protection – which created its own ripples and waves of internal dissent.
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Kevin Rudd’s staff overworked, and walking out | News.com : PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd’s staff are overworked, and many of them are leaving. Fairfax says Mr Rudd has lost about 40 per cent of new appointments to his private office since last December, and his deputy Julia Gillard has lost nearly 50 per cent.
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Environmentalists slam Wong’s forestry stance | ABC : Environment groups say the Federal Government is taking a hypocritical position on forestry at a climate conference in Poland. The Australian Conservation Foundation’s Lindsay Hesketh says the Australian Government supports the current Kyoto deal which rewards the chopping down of old growth forests to grow plantations.
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Yes you can change the climate, Mr Obama| New Scientist : Open letter to President Elect Barack Obama – This week diplomats from around the world are meeting in Poznan, Poland, to continue negotiating a successor to the Kyoto climate treaty, which expires in 2012. The world will doubtless be told that Kyoto is on track and that its successor will be based on more of the same. Many hope that under your leadership the US will now join. In fact Kyoto is a dismal failure. We must tear it up and start again.
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More later.
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