Kearney left out in the cold on coal with Shorten picking Queensland over Melbourne
Bill Shorten speaking in Rockhampton, yesterday:
I’ve spent my life representing miners. I understand the importance of mining.
Shorten’s candidate in Batman tells a different tale. Ged Kearney’s statement to The Australian, yesterday:
I understand we need to transition away from coal as a source of electricity ...
Has Shorten given up on inner Melbourne? The Opposition Leader in central Queensland, continued:
The reality is that we are the party of miners ...
Poor old Ged is stuck between a rock (well, a lump of coal) and a Green place. Kearney in The Australian, yesterday:
... but do it in a way that is managed and doesn’t leave coal workers and communities behind ...
She might lose Batman, but Kearney’s coal stance could get her a Nobel Peace Prize down the track. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s statement, October 12, 2007 :
... the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared ... between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change ...
Environmentalists aren’t the worst people nominated for a Nobel ... Norwegian politician Bjornar Moxnes’s nomination, February 2:
Awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to the BDS movement would be a powerful sign ...
It’s so awful that anti-Semitic boycotters of Israel could possibly be lauded by the “international community”. The Anti-Defamation Commission’s letter to Norway’s ambassador to Australia, yesterday:
BDS activism is not about disagreeing with a specific government policy, but is about delegitimising and waging an economic war against the only democracy in the Middle East and the only Jewish state in the world.
We know the Australian left wants more and more internationalism. Labor’s Penny Wong in Canberra, October 17 last year:
Australia has a deep interest in a strong multilateral system ... we should consistently assert the importance of the United Nations and of the multilateral system.
The Greens’ federal election policy platform, 2016:
The Australian Greens want ... a renewed commitment by Australia to multilateralism as the means of addressing global challenges.
But here’s one multilateral body Labor and the Greens aren’t listening to ... a new report from the International Monetary Fund, yesterday:
Australia’s effective average corporate tax rates are currently in the upper third among advanced economies ...
Will lefties tap into our “collective human intelligence” and back tax cuts? Former Greens leader Bob Brown in Hobart, March 23, 2012:
Fellow Earthians. Never before has the universe unfolded such a flower as our collective human intelligence, so far as we know.
Probably not. Shorten speaking in Mackay, Tuesday:
Labor isn’t going to give away billions of dollars to large banks and multinationals and giant mining companies, many of whom don’t even pay tax anyway now ... because we are not going to give Malcolm Turnbull’s tax cuts to the top end of town.