Yeah, but in the vernacular use of the term, sociopaths is usually used for narcissists without empathy and psychopaths is used to describe murderers - I blame the TVThe definition between both would be slim yeah?
You are wrong pharma, this is the important news, I did't detract from the thread at all.Yeah, but in the vernacular use of the term, sociopaths is usually used for narcissists without empathy and psychopaths is used to describe murderers - I blame the TV
Back to important news, the lib back bench have gone for the spill, so MT and TA will be on the phone from now on.....
As Malcolm Turnbull himself said the other day, an ETS works better in theory than practice.It should be a bigger issue already. There can't be many other developed countries with out one or something similar?
He would shit in with an ETS as well. The issue shouldn't be whether it works 100% as well as the economic modeling or is less effective...it is about establishing an effective framework for reducing nasty emissions. If we allow conservative business interests to stiffle that any longer we eventually find ourselves globally isolated. There are plenty of examples of other environmental/social/justice/economic etc issues where countries have been isolated globally as a means of coercing them to conform. Pretending its all hocus pocus isn't really a viable option.As Malcolm Turnbull himself said the other day, an ETS works better in theory than practice.
I do think he would shit it in, if he dropped his ETS stance.
Butt will lose it before the next election.Abbott will retain the leadership.
This.Abbott will retain the leadership.
I hope you're wrong because that would make the most likely replacement someone who can't afford to wait till 2019. Prime Minister Kevin Andrews. And unfortunately I doubt Julia Gillard will be willing to be deputy to him.They'll simply bide their time until next election, sit in as leader of the opposition for the inevitable Labor term that will commence in 2016 and clean up next time the door spins around.
It never really mattered to the degree people thought. The carbon tax was primarily just a shifting of the domestic tax base, not an increase in total taxation, basically similar to the introduction of the GST. Exports were exempt and taxation concessions given to offset it's imposition so that the effects were revenue neutral overall, while reducing carbon emissions. One of the bigger impacts on the current governments budget has been the loss of carbon tax revenue, without the elimination of the tax sweeteners given in the implementation of it.It should be a bigger issue already. There can't be many other developed countries with out one or something similar?
Every mineral boom ends with politicans promising to move the economy away from a reliance on primary sector exports. Nothing ever changes.With the down turn in coal exports we are going to need to find something new to sell anyway, so it would seem a pretty good time to start looking more seriously at smarter energy etc.
I hope this drags on endlessly for the schadenfreude. His rejection at the polls will be as deserved as Rudd's, as will his continued political beatdown at the hands of his dissatisfied backbenchers and a hostile senate.Abbott will retain the leadership.
Agree 100%.Butt will lose it before the next election.
Till Tuesday , the MT by 5 votesAbbott will retain the leadership.
Really? Compared to when?It's interesting to note how conservative the national party has become.
NATIONALS MPs will demand a written guarantee from Malcolm Turnbull that he will not pursue an emissions trading scheme, gay marriage or backtrack on asylum-seeker policy if he topples Tony Abbott to become prime minister.Really? Compared to when?
What I find interesting is how silent they are. The only one you hear anything from is Barnaby Joyce. From the outside it appears they stand up to the Liberals on nothing.