Muppets v miners: Palaszczuk’s US trip to focus on Sesame Street deal instead of Adani
Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk is one of many taking part in Malcolm Turnbull’s huge US trade delegation. The Premier speaking at Brisbane Airport, Monday:
It’s very important to keep those trade relationships with the US.
Will the Premier be talking to US investors about the Adani mine project she has vetoed funding for? Palaszczuk ’s statement to the media, November 4 last year:
This afternoon I announce that my government has had no role to date in the federal government’s assessment process for Adani. Now we will have no role in the future.
Nope. The Queensland Labor leader off to talk shop with Kermit the Frog. Palaszczuk speaks to APP, yesterday:
In its 50th year, it would be great if the iconic Sesame Street could film at some of our iconic locations …
What a Muppet. Palaszczuk speaks to ABC News Queensland, February 12:
I support projects that will deliver jobs for Queenslanders …
Adani is going to end up providing a few more jobs than Elmo and friends. Sesame Street’s theme song, July 21, 1969:
Can you tell me how to get / How to get to (the Carmichael coalmine)?
Meanwhile, Labor’s Batman campaign is brought to you by the letters L, G, B, T, I and Q. Candidate Ged Kearney’s statement on her new gay health policy, yesterday:
The need for LGBTIQ-specific services in northern Melbourne was highlighted by the recent marriage equality debate. Malcolm Turnbull’s divisive survey caused huge distress for many local people, with no locally based LGBTIQ services able to provide tailored support.
That’s the Turnbull who legislated marriage equality? The Prime Minister speaking after the postal survey result in Canberra, November 5 last year:
They voted Yes for fairness, they voted Yes for commitment, they voted Yes for love. And now it is up to us … to get on with the job the Australian people have tasked us to do and get this done.
What did the Labor Party do about same-sex marriage again? Julia Gillard, ABC’s Q&A, August 9, 2010:
I understand there’s a variety of community views on same-sex marriage and … my position, the position of the Labor Party … is we believe that the Marriage Act should stay in the same way that it is now, so marriage would be defined as marriage between a man and a woman.
What does Kearney think of that divisive prime minister who held back LGBTI rights? The ACTU president speaks to The Australian, June 27, 2013:
She was a strong and capable leader who achieved a lot for Australia … She is going to leave a great legacy …
In other news, Emma Alberici roars back. ABC News’s economics correspondent on Twitter, yesterday:
My analysis of the case for business tax cuts is back up. I hope it enlivens public debate.
She won’t let a few ABC bureaucrats and basic economics get in her way. Destiny’s Child, May 1, 2001:
I’m a survivor / I ‘m not gon’ give up
The opinion is out, but this has been put in … An editor’s note on the revised ABC News online analysis piece, yesterday:
Emma Alberici is … a respected and senior Australian journalist.