Sunday political talkies: Adaptation* pains likely for 20C economy hitting 21C eco limits
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Topic: aust govt
* My old zoology lecturer swore there is no such word as "adaption".
Picture: the name of the game is adaptation like the soldering iron rubber band solution for these ill fitting nickel cadmium/alklaine rechargeables for the bike light for the CBD commute here on planet SAM. Another idea would be to buy the right model charger in the first place. A bit like the Emission Trading Scheme, carbon tax argument running through the meeja reaction to the Ross Garnaut 500 page report late last week. Either way the main thing is to arrive safely.
Author’s general introductory note (skip this bit if you know this regular weekly column):
This is not a well packaged story. It’s a contemporaneous traverse of the Sunday television free to air political talkies indicating the agenda of Establishment interests: Better to know ones rivals and allies in Big Politics and Big Media.
Indeed it’s the tv version monitoring task similar to what Nelson Mandela refers to here in his book Long Walk to Freedom (1994, Abacus) written in Robben Island prison (where he was meant to die like other African resister chiefs of history in the 19C), at page 208
“..newspapers are only a shadow of reality; their information is important to a freedom fighter not because it reveals the truth, but because it discloses the biases and perceptions of both those who produce the paper and those who read it.”
Just substitute ‘Sunday tv political talkie shows’ for "newspapers" in the quote above.
For actual transcripts and/or video feeds go to web sites quoted including Riley Diary on 7. And note transcripts don’t really give you the image content value.
Media backgrounders
- Been out of the loop too much in the wage force to have many edgy insights. Kitchen table groaning with unread press doing combat with Coca Cola case prep re Peats Ridge Springs over exploitation. Credit card debt snivelling up from the deep dank pit, as are some limited career prospects.
- Apparently Nandos chicken shop owner in the Broadway area is about to be charged by the coppers, so our source tells us. The allegation against this South African corporation is that they position traders in unviable locations, don’t monitor their brand in these hopeless situations and turn desperate small business owners to insurance jobs. It’s all likely to end up before the courts. Similar insurance job was done in Canada with fatal consequences too apparently. Does the corporation have a duty of care to neighbours of unviable franchisees who turn to criminal means of escape from near bankruptcy? We think the neighbours may well have a case and the govt might well have a role re this duty of care to ensure at the minium a level of viability for their brand in that franchise location especially juxtaposed to vulnerable residents in the same structure. Apparently the residents in the Quadrant complex are all psychologically injured by the shock of the explosion which delivered broken glass onto the roof 10 stories above.
9 Sunday 7.30 – 9.30 am
Technical glitch, well compensated by Laurie Oakes to be returning. Feature on US nerve chemical testing on Aussie guinea pigs.
Sunday uses Swan notes for catch up on tax tiddlers items around petrol and gst. Ross does an economic roundup but lacking in time.
Adam Shand becomes a reporter expert on bikie gangs, [just watched Stone, classic … maaan. Quite a hotch potch of social strata, environment, spiv developers, Askin type crooks, Satanism, nudity, drug use, made mid 70ies from memory, Sydney urban scapes when the F3 cuttings were novel, modern motorbikes were still also novel, and a range of harbour view and old style pubs, with some Macho bravado.]
Great feature on mining, Aboriginal history of Yerranderie. Really marvelous French artist images of a handsome people cut down by colonial impacts – likely disease but also violence.
Feature by Ross Coulthard – looks like our piece on Iron Ranges National Park pseudo nuke test in tropical jungle FNQ. Yep surely is.
Sunday, 10 June 2007 John Howard's betrayal of practical reconciliation with broken $40M 1996 election promise for Cape York Land Use Agreement
Mood: 
sharp
Topic: indigenous
Backgrounder source is Greg Young based here in Sydney often aka Eardrum, film maker of Australian Atomic Confessions.
Peter Bailey Prof of Law, my honours ‘superviser’ more in the absence than the reality in 1989, but great Human Rights and jurisprudence lecturer there at ANU in the 80ies. [My honours was A Legal Foundation for Aboriginal Land Rights specifically on native title 3 years before the famous Mabo HCA decision. Feel proud about that even if the mark was mediocre.]
Laurie Oakes – he’s back!!!!! Damn good. Love the guy. And what a way back with Ross Garnaut with the seminal next installment coming from a serious business and academic background. Mission to scare the hell out of everyone? Denies it, but the question answers itself too Ross. Illogical to exclude fuel sources like petrol – internationally consistent, blurrs the message. Diabolical policy area harder than trade liberalization, or GST locally. For a while we were blockers. Govt electable where they implement this policy area? Have a bigger support now than for economic reforms in the 80ies.
Asks RG for a slogan. Demurs but risks are too great if nothing is done. Known Rudd as young officer in diplomatic corp. Political skill? Yes to get to PM. Will – says yes.
Opposition has gone populist, disappointed? Says virtually inevitable. Support in the Opposition for taking action too.
Why should consumers pay more for petrol – asks him to look into the camera as a figure of speech but RG takes it literally and says the costs will be greater if we don’t fix the problem.
Not going first. About the middle of the pack. Biggest loser if we don’t find a solution hotter and drier.
Tenor of the interview is quietly spoken and mild mannered perhaps because RG is seen as something of an honest broker on this situation.
The web poll result of last week is that 11% feel prepared for the costs of climate change and 89% don’t. Ellen therefore Rudd Govt have a big problem.
http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/default.asp
10 Meet the Press: 8- 8-30 am
Press round up. Moral panic in Sydney on naked child on art magazine. What a dumb cover, dumb issue, dumb and yes irresponsible.
Penny Wong famous polished smooth talking style, all diplomacy [not to be discounted in this really fraught time in history bringing the mommia into the ecological realities of the 21C] but also of little real action as per ALP crushing history on unsustainability.
Glenn Milne tells it straight – won’t the lower lakes be dead in …[12 months?].
Emily Rice 10 environment reporter, Glenn Milne on the panel.
Footage of Murray Basin stressed river, academic (Adelaide guy beyond the ALP fire blanket on this issue.
Steve Fielding claims in balance between Climate Skeptics and Climate Terrorists. Lead in footage shows his ‘great’ or hackneyed ability for stunts as with Nick Xenephon. Makes the Greens look downright conservative.
SF pushes the impact on families. [Truth is the Assembly of God party as per their church hall in logger town Orbost are all about destruction of the environment, go forth and multiply and bring on the cataclysmic Rapture at the End of the World, praise the Lord. SF is double talking all the way, too slick too faith/fantasy based. Not for him the Christian dictum that nature is God’s Creation and our sacred duty is to be good stewards.]
Meet The Press - Watch Political Video Online - Channel TEN.
Riley Diary 7, 8.35 am
Downer retrospective, archival material is fantastic. Sadly missed a lot of it in conflict with RC on 9 feature re potential weapons tests Andrew OKeefe tells it like it is – Downer “no regrets” after WMD, AWB scandals “is a bit rich” says Andrew OKeefe. Riles wisely keeps his doors open to the Coalition by saying nothing. But OKeefe is surely correct and it doesn’t take a bleeding heart Lefty to know it. Shows guts on AK’s part. And real politik nouse because that’s a large reason why the Howard Downer team lost the election. He should have gone 6 months ago.
http://www.seven.com.au/sunrise/weekend
Insiders 2: 9- 10am
Papers round up. Henderson links Iemma problems to alleged ‘merit’ of power asset sales agenda.
Panel is Annabel Crabb (Fairfax), George Meglogenis (News Corp broadsheet), Gerard Henderson (conservative Sydney Institute, Fairfax opinion writer). Crabby looks gorgeous with her Charlotte Bronte hair.
Guest is PM Rudd – firm on the rhetoric, 2-3 million jobs in the transition to carbon reduced [my word] economy sourced to CSIRO report.
Asked a cracking question what is ETS – what does it mean.? Right to say 5 m to give a simple answer – it’s a cap with sharing carbon of parts across 20 million Aussies.
CSIRO another report – exceptional drought, once every 20 years, once every 2 years. Twice as often and twice the area. Serious revision on impact of climate on drought.
Affect on people in the burbs is increase in prices. [last Friday morning, busiest day of the week. Not much traffic on busy busy Illawarra Rd. Could have been traffic jam on Unwin’s Bridge Rd, but spooky given the day of Garnaut on front pages].
Rudd refers to lower lakes Alexandrina with Minister Wong. Climate change or water held back? Says aggregation of factors. Water Minister Wong mentioned again approvingly.
Rudd stands firm on use of children in art. Can’t stand this stuff. [Knows the populist politics clearly.]
Every person segment, biker not bikie, another outdoor type. Not explained clearly. 2010 is too slow so gungho.
Panel agrees Rudd needs to hone his explanations a lot. Hendo says Australia won’t follow us. Cassidy says RG message is if we don’t they won’t. Truth is both these arguments and no one really knows the answer. A lot of suspicion and a lot of fear and loathing in this uncertainty. Hend says pure mythology.
Chris Uhlmann as guest editor instead of Paul Kelly off with the Pope flight into Australia. Does an highly dogmatic soliloquy given the opinion segment includes “some lunatics” in the debate over climate change and as an “ex seminarian” doesn’t buy the faith based theology of climate when we can’t even predict the weather. WRONG Chris. Henderson agrees with him which gives the warning why CUis wrong. CU might want to consult Paul Collins on why cutting down old growth forests is indeed a sin, before even considering Adam Shand’s skeptic piece on Sunday 9 last week where he interviewed Prof Flannery that daily weekly weather forecasting is totally wrong analogy compared to seasonal winter summer type long term forecasting. Flannery such seasonal statistics of warmer and colder over longer periods of time is sound analysis.
Shand even went to the flipping of the winter summer in Europe in around 1815 to ‘prove’ Flannery wrong, only to be impaled by Senator Brown reference to dust from Krakatoa caused a one off change in global climate that year, and that yes common sense applies winter is colder than summer. Derrr.
While CU was in the seminary, some of us were doing science degrees. Take note CU.
Comic show promo Aussie Yes Minister style. Crabb says quite well researched with grab about biggest loser. Meglo refers to West Wing [our boss is like a cross between CJ and Margaret – think about that).
Talking pictures. Noticed the ribald lead cartoon too in The Australian of Rudd on CC doing contortions of Karma Sutra and over time in the hotel bedroom. A real good laugh that one. Damn rude too.
Out takes have Crabb praising Govt on cutting political advertising. Meglo something. Hendo likes Malcolm Speed getting it right on sport links with Zimbabwe forced to resign from his job.
Home page is http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/
Inside Business 2 10 am
Inside Business special on climate change with Ross Garnaut already on Sunday 9, also with Warwick McKibbin counter point.
Interview with Ross Garnaut Australia and USA were blocking Climate Change and we moved beyond, USA in process of same.
China has to move a lot sooner. 4% reduction per annum. Radical reduction. AK says can’t force China though? Building coal power stations one every 2 weeks. RG: Committed to renewables targets. Price of wind infrastructure going up as they are buying it all, biggest nuke sector but only 6% of whole profile still.
Both omit the ‘force’ as per Montreal Protocol of tariffs and bans on CFC embedded products.
2 year transition period price on carbon, combined with auction of permits. Says legitimate 2nd best option because sets up compliance and conditions.
Independent report, politics changed with price of oil, credit crisis and economic crisis in USA. These factors do make a difference. Capital costs have gone up, other side of the resources boom. Prices will go up anyway regardless of the ETS.
What businesses should do is get a handle on their carbon footprint. BHP investment hydro development of aluminium in the Congo gets his tick. [huge impact on the rivers].
Garnaut report was [attempted gazump] by McKibbin the day before. Lowy Institute now, Reserve Bank member. RG is excellent report, disagrees with policy implementation. Likes a simpler system. RG borrows some ideas from ‘them’ says WK like Bank of Carbon, another one.
Says it is a lot of uncertainty, no scientific basis for how much each country should cut.
Changing the politics point [global influences again? Missed the reference]
AK – China won’t do anything unless we do, even if we don’t have any mitigation impact. At page 11 China is critical. Leaves out India. Makes big play about CCS. Then notices in RG report ‘it’s all too late’. 500 draft pages of mitigation and maybe “pointless”
Story: Clear winner will be renewable energy sector. Talks to solar entrepreneur. Need smooth approaches not govt shocks in policy.
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Updated: Sunday, 6 July 2008 12:56 PM EADT
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