Don’t wake us: Green dreams live on in power-shocked SA
Tony Abbott as opposition leader prognosticates about the future of South Australian steel, April 27, 2011:
Whyalla will be wiped off the map by Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, Whyalla risks becoming a ghost town, an economic wasteland …
Labor’s Craig Emerson defends the renewable energy push in song, July 1, 2012:
No Whyalla wipe-out, there on my TV,
No Whyalla wipe-out, there on my TV …
The Australian reports, Wednesday:
The administrators of Arrium steelworks in Whyalla are negotiating with the South Australian government and the Clean Energy Corporation to create an independent power source …
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill stands by renewables, ABC radio, yesterday:
At this stage we cannot apportion blame … the future is renewables, the past is coal.
Never let a crisis go to waste. Guardian Australia’s Katharine Murphy joins the call for more renewables and carbon regulation, yesterday:
One way in which the various jurisdictions could demonstrate seriousness would be to consider whether the electricity sector could benefit from a form of carbon trading …
Overland promotes a piece by Tara Kenny, who fabricated Melbourne hipster Samuel Davide Hains in The Age, Twitter, Wednesday:
Manufacturing hipsterism: Tara Kenny on the Melbourne Man media hoax
The Age’s Michelle Griffin, Twitter, yesterday:
Hey Tara, you were lazy, you lied, you got sprung. You’re not special.
Pseudonymous staffer Robert Campbell on the Budgie Nine and the rise of the “staffer brat”, Spectator Australia website, Wednesday:
The staffer brat is a twenty-something arts degree graduate, typically moderate-leaning, Kool-Aid drinking political adviser … They’ve seen the inside of the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge and … won’t let you forget it.
But Malaysia’s most notorious swimsuit models have a supporter in F1 champ Daniel Ricciardo, Daily Telegraph, yesterday:
It sounds like they have learnt their lesson and I don’t think they will be doing that again any time soon in Malaysia. I see it as pretty harmless.
Jenna Price stands by her (wo) man, Sydney Morning Herald, yesterday:
Hillary Clinton’s behaviour is admirable for so many reasons. When she decided not to leave Bill after the news of his affairs, she displayed key personal attributes … forbearance and fidelity, of course, but also loyalty and, most importantly, resilience.
And who needs the sisterhood when the White House is at stake? The New York Times reporting, Monday:
Privately, (Hillary Clinton) embraced the Clinton campaign’s aggressive strategy of counter-attack: Women who claimed to have had sexual encounters with Mr Clinton would become targets of digging and discrediting — tactics that women’s rights advocates frequently denounce.
He didn’t want the job anyway. Kevin Rudd congratulates the new UN secretary general-elect, Twitter:
Deepest congratulations to Antonio Guterres on election as UN SG. A tribute to him. & Portugal. A great responsibility now for a troubled world