Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

[Sky Pilot]

Tony has announced his new team and our children are in good hands with Christopher education minister.

Yeah Chris Pyne will do a good job. He's very competent

[Gozu]

Tony has announced his new team and our children are in good hands with Christopher education minister.

Yeah Chris Pyne will do a good job. He's very competent

John Howard might disagree.

[Gozu]

Minister for Anzac Day? OMG

I was surprised this afternoon to see folks whom I respect expressing surprise at the crazy list of portfolios in Tony Abbott’s First Ministry.

We all know it by now – a Minister for Anzac Day but no Minister for Science, a Minister for Border Protection but no Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship.

Tony Abbott is no John Howard, and no Barry O’Farrell. This is Abbottism Unchained, no need to mask the agenda or the message with a ‘steady as goes’ face. (How that meshes with the supposed emphasis on measured process? It’s meant to troll the left, and thus ensures the noise is from the other direction.)

Anyone who watched Campbell Newman start his Premiership by appointing his mates to public service jobs and by abolishing the Premier’s Writers Awards should not be surprised.

Hard right. Boofy. Blokey. Know-nothing. Nativism. You know, all the stuff that’s meant to pass the “Lindsay Test”.

http://larvatusprodeo.net/archives/2013 ... something/

[Sky Pilot]

Minister for Anzac Day? OMG

I was surprised this afternoon to see folks whom I respect expressing surprise at the crazy list of portfolios in Tony Abbott’s First Ministry.

We all know it by now – a Minister for Anzac Day but no Minister for Science, a Minister for Border Protection but no Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship.

Tony Abbott is no John Howard, and no Barry O’Farrell. This is Abbottism Unchained, no need to mask the agenda or the message with a ‘steady as goes’ face. (How that meshes with the supposed emphasis on measured process? It’s meant to troll the left, and thus ensures the noise is from the other direction.)

Anyone who watched Campbell Newman start his Premiership by appointing his mates to public service jobs and by abolishing the Premier’s Writers Awards should not be surprised.

Hard right. Boofy. Blokey. Know-nothing. Nativism. You know, all the stuff that’s meant to pass the “Lindsay Test”.

http://larvatusprodeo.net/archives/2013 ... something/

This is music to my ears. We have (at least) six years of the bleating left complaining about everything that is conservative. Unreal, please keep it up I'm loving it.

[Leaping Lindner]

Tony has announced his new team and our children are in good hands with Christopher education minister.

Yeah Chris Pyne will do a good job. He's very competent

John Howard might disagree.

Chris Pyne as Minister for Education. What could possibly go wrong???

[Gozu]

Not complaining stoked to finally have a Minister for Anzac biscuits. Minister for Truth just around the corner. Thankfully no Minister for Science though as we all know gravity is lefty group-think.

I wouldn't get too excited SP, Howard was almost a one-term wonder (Beazley won the majority vote in '98) and Labor similar when Gillard had to govern in minority government in 2010 too.

Abbottopia won't be all it's cracked up to be (for your side) and wouldn't be surprised if he's gone before the next election. Despite what everyone has tried to tell you the guy inside the PM's suit is still Tony Abbott. Think about that.

[Q.]

No Minister for Science. Is this bloke for real?

[Q.]

Science is falling under MacFarlane's Industry portfolio.

[Sky Pilot]

I think Tony is trying to avoid the debacle of repeating stuff like Craig Emerson's business card which read something like Minister for Trade and Competitiveness, Minister for assisting the Prime Minister on Asian Century Policy and Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research.
You blokes never thought of criticising that I guess?
What a croc of.
I'm sure science will be dealt with so just relax, we have adults in room now hahaha

[Leaping Lindner]

Who is minister for that new fangled telegraph thingy that takes messages to the mother country on underwater cables in only seven hours?

[smac]

Well it's not anyone from the ALP.

[Q.]

My mistake, I had forgotten the Government was beyond scrutiny when the LNP holds power

[Sky Pilot]

you lefties are gonna have to improve on that stuff. Clutching at straws is amusing to watch though

[Q.]

Perhaps I'll need to adopt your ad hominem approach to all debate.

[Sky Pilot]

Perhaps I'll need to adopt your ad hominem approach to all debate.

How pathetic

[Q.]

Perhaps I'll need to adopt your ad hominem approach to all debate.

How pathetic

Yes, it would be, I suppose. On second thought, I won't.

[Leaping Lindner]

Well it's not anyone from the ALP.

Or a woman

[Jimmy_041]

I have to admit, I am disappointed at not having a named Minister for about 100 of my special interests
OMFG, are they ignoring them and the 100 people who actually care about each issue and require a special mention?
Welcome to the government of what actually matters...............

[Gozu]

Welcome to the government of what actually matters...............

Coalition MP Dennis Jensen, who is a vocal climate science sceptic, has called on Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott to appoint him as science minister.

"At the moment to be honest I'm feeling under-utilised," said Dr Jensen, the member for Tangney in Western Australia, who has a master's degree in physics and a PhD in material science.

"I think that I've got a lot to offer," he added. "I've got some unique attributes."

Not to sure stupidity will be in short supply on the Coalition's front bench.

It was wrong to accept the view of the 97 per cent of climate scientists who agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely caused by human activities, because "the argument of consensus . . . is a flawed argument," Dr Jensen said.

The colourful Englishman, Lord Christopher Monckton, who toured Australia to debunk the "bogus science" of global warming, was closer to the mark, Dr Jensen suggested.

"Most of the stuff [Lord Monckton] says is entirely reasonable," Dr Jensen said.

"Some of it I don't agree with but on the whole a lot of what he says is in my view correct."

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/ ... 2tltt.html

[Grahaml]

You want to watch a climate scientist squirm just ask them whether the evidence for climate change over the last 100'000 years suggests the global temperatures should have risen, or fallen, over the last 100 years.