Peta for PM? No, green Libs want renewables to thrive
Peta for MP? Aaron Patrick, Australian Financial Review, January 6:
Liberal Party officials are eager to recruit Ms (Peta) Credlin … (for the federal seat of Mallee in) Victoria.
Peta for PM? Piers Morgan of ITV’s Good Morning Britain tweets, December 31 last year:
Just watched … (Peta Credlin on the Brexit deal.) Can we make this Aussie newsreader our Prime Minister with immediate effect?
We need renewables to thrive. Oliver Yates, The Guardian, yesterday:
The Liberal party is suffering an existential crisis … caused by inaction on climate change. (Nominating Peta Credlin for the seat of Mallee would split the party because she consistently calls for) the end of renewables. She doesn’t represent real liberal views … Australians … would prefer … renewable energy and a future we can survive and thrive in.
Thriving. Nicole Hasham, Sydney Morning Herald, November 7, 2017:
Ex-Macquarie banker Oliver Yates, chief executive of the government’s $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation until April … is the independent director of several emerging renewable energy companies.
Thriving humungously. Tony Boyd, Australian Financial Review, November 4, 2017:
Macquarie Group see big dollars in renewable energy investment. When shares … (approached) the $100 mark … it was a sign of growing market confidence that … (Macquarie) would continue to prove adept at making humungous amounts of money. (Over six years its market value soared from $5 billion to $33.8bn, with $15bn invested in renewables and it signed) up consultants to open doors and secure new business (including) Oliver Yates .
Real Liberal values? Ben Potter, Australian Financial Review, October 16, 2017:
Oliver Yates and the former ACT (Labor) Deputy Chief Minister Simon Corbell … have set up Clean Energy Derivatives Corporation to raise $250 million to back contracts with wind farms and solar farms … The Victorian and Queensland (Labor) governments have announced about $3bn of reverse auctions for renewable energy … and the ACT (Labor-Greens government) is a long-established player … having kicked it off when Mr Corbell was chief minister.
Offensive “Godfrey Elfwick”. Andrew Doyle, Spiked, July 25 last year:
On the release of the film 12 Years a Slave … Elfwick (tweeted:) “Typical of Hollywood to cast a black actor in a stereotypical role as a slave … Why not 12 Years a Bank Manager?” … For some, the image of him on the Women’s March in a full burka and pink pussy hat was a step too far. Others were uncomfortable with his tweet: “I’ve been secretly putting hormone blockers in my nephew’s Dairylea Lunchables for the past few months. She’ll thank me for it in a few years, you mark my words” … (or his tweet:) “Two British white males at the head of this (Thai cave) rescue mission. Their privilege is staggering … I demand they be replaced with two differently abled transgender people of mixed race to offer those children a more empowering experience.”
Ever helpful. Elfwick, Spectator USA, December 31 last year:
New Year’s resolutions white cis men need to make for 2019 … Listen to women … then nod and say … “Please take a large annual percentage of my earnings from here on in, in reparation for the terrible wrongs my particularly toxic brand of white patriarchy has exposed you to.”