Last night (Oct 20th) I saw an advertisement where a ‘coal miner’ used various tactics to intimidate, reason with or do a snow-job to convince the public that jobs were at stake by meeting the ETS (emission trading scheme).
What is clearly an initiative by the Coal Industry, they want to only pay for emissions post [...]
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Coal Industry Tactics to Kill Environment
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: australia · climate change · coal · environment · industry
Minister for Spin – light-heavyweight Stephen Robertson
September 8th, 2009 · No Comments
It’s amazing how Anna Bligh and all the other big names in Labor (Federal, State or Local) have a crack at the art of spin.
Now you will have noticed I said have a crack as opposed to mastered.
The reason they haven’t mastered it is because increasingly, more and more people are seeing through the [...]
Tags: economy · energy · industry · politics · queensland
Bomb Bonus a Bum Deal on Wheels
March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment
It has been reported that the MTA is calling on the Government to introduce a cash-for-cars scheme; this brave new stimulus plan will further gouge the public purse and reward people who haven’t bought a new car and drive one older than 10 years and penalize those who have, by missing out on the mooted [...]