Re your post which included this comment about Tony Abbott; "... The mad monk's ability to say black is white shows australia is at risk of stepping back in time and taking retrograde steps regarding the human influence on rising carbon dioxide emissions and their impact on global warming.. "
Tony Abbott has demonstrated that he is a master of rhetorical spin, three word slogans, gross exaggeration, delusional mantras, preposterous assertions, motherhood statements and targeted vitriol.
The dead hand of Tony Abbott descended on Australian politics in earnest when he politically assassinated Malcolm Turnbull; scuttling the bipartisan CPRS Turnbull had negotiated with Kevin Rudd.
Abbott's rise to power has ushered in the most destructive, confidence sapping and Parliamentary convention trashing record in Australian political history.
It has opened deep-seated community divisions, demonised asylum seekers as 'illegals' and transformed our economy from AAA Stable to one already declining into indecision, paralysis and rewards for election backers [ie removal of the MRRT & CT-ETS]. Abbott's promised 'new government' remedy has fallen so flat even Joe Hockey's resolve is unravelling in front of our very eyes - handing out $8.8b to the RBA to back its bets on risky assets.
On Abbott's record thus far, History will record he was the leader we had to have to end Labor's destructive infighting. It will also record that it marked a major downgrade in concern for environmental issues, gay rights and longer term macro-economic competence.
More startling than anything else, it will mark the transfer of Multi $Billions in funds from kids education to the super-profit buckets of our most profitable mining companies.
