GETTING THE NATIONALS TO EXPLAIN ITS CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY IS THE GREAT MORAL CHALLENGE OF OUR TIME

Submitted by webadmin on Wed, 11/07/2012 - 12:48pm

10/07/2012

IT has now been one week since two-time National Party candidate for Lyne David Gillespie called for a referendum on carbon pricing without knowing his own party’s policy on Climate Change.
Independent Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott said he and other ABC Radio listeners were surprised to hear Mr Gillespie confess “I’ll have to go back to my notes” when asked about the National Party’s Climate Change plan.
“Fortunately for Mr Gillespie, the electronic political magazine Crikey! has since found a copy of the National Party’s speaking notes and published them online,” Mr Oakeshott said.
The documents reveal:
1. The National Party and the Labor Party agree on the science of climate change
2. The National Party and the Labor Party agree on the need for a policy response to the science
3. The National Party and the Labor Party agree on a 5 per cent reduction in emissions by 2020 as the core of the policy response.
“What a rainbow alliance on climate change – the National Party and the Labor Party in agreement on science and policy principles,” Mr Oakeshott said.
“This written and agreed policy position of the National Party is, however, at direct odds with its very public relationship with groups such as the Galileo Movement, the Australian Taxpayers Alliance, the Consumers and Taxpayers Association, and the many other anti-science and anti-government groups rallying around the ‘carbon-dioxide-is-plant-food’ cause.
“I therefore again invite Mr Gillespie, and all National Party MPs, to explain the cost of their climate change policy to householders.
“My position on this issue has been clear and consistent since 2008. It is National Party MPs, and now Mr Gillespie, who, for political reasons, are ducking and weaving on their very own climate change policies.
“It is well and truly time for them to explain the detail, particularly when these same people are keen for a referendum on carbon,” Mr Oakeshott said.

2012_07_10_Climate_NP.pdf

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Coalition's lack of explanation on policy funding

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 19/07/2012 - 2:26pm.

Yeah strange alright! The Coalition keep calling for an election but refuse to release any polices or if they do release them they refuse to say how they (or should I say the taxpayers) will pay for them. Their Direct Action plan to reduce emission by 5% (same as the government) is one. They intend to give billions of tax payer dollars to big polluters to ‘encourage’ them to reduce their emissions. Where will this money come from - Higher taxes or cuts to services? Another is their Parental Leave Scheme. The revenue for this scheme will come from their own big tax on business (same as the Carbon Tax). But they never tell us what compensation consumers will get to cushion us from the obvious prices rises that will come from this tax on business? So given they’ll take the Carbon Tax compensation away their Parental Leave Scheme tax will be double hit on workers.

Climate Change of mind

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/07/2012 - 4:06pm.

Reading the speaking notes the other day was a scary insigt into the calibre of candidates that the LNP present. Rob the lies...Here is a party forming a strategy based upon Julia told a lie, with nothing more than Lies. Tony Abbott and his cohorts are Fakes. Not since the dark ages or big tobacco have I seen such vilification of scientists for nothing more than profit and political advantage.

NP and climate change

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/07/2012 - 1:39pm.

Given this policy, I find the hypocrisy of the National Party breath-taking, especially in the light of Andrew Stoner's recent comments that the science of climate change should be 'taken with a grain of salt', and that those advocating for a reduction in CO2 emissions were 'alarmist'. Time to tell us, Mr Stoner, exactly how your party plan to combat the increasing problems associated with global warming.