Sunday 14 December 2014
So what has former Howard Government Minister Peter Reith been doing since he was exposed as lobbyist for the gas industry
Wednesday 26 November 2014
Coal seam/tight gas miner Metgasco Limited's major shareholder makes the news again as Australian Senate inquiry into Queensland Government continues
The question a number of voters on the NSW North Coast are asking is: How much is ERM Power donating to the NSW Liberal and Nationals election campaigns ahead of the March 2015 state election?
Because unless the current Liberal-Nationals Coalition Government headed by Premier Baird wins re-election Metgasco Limited will lose all its North Coast coal seam gas tenements and ERM Power the value of its investment.
BACKGROUND
Details of the Senate Select Committee inquiry into Certain Aspects of Queensland Government Administration related to Commonwealth Government Affairs can be found here.
Thursday 4 September 2014
Ex-News Corp journalist & Abbott propagandist Steve Lewis now a lobbyist with Newgate Communications
Friday 8 November 2013
Is Peter Reith splitting hairs in the hope no one will pursue his connection with the gas industry in Australia?
Friday 14 June 2013
Is the Liberal Party finally leaving the Metgasco building?
Tuesday 29 May 2012
A smoking gun in the Thomson vs Media saga?
In 2009 then Victorian ALP state secretary Stephen Newnham was one of the first people to start accusing Craig Thomson of alleged brothel creeping during his time at the Health Services Union.
Might it also explain why the veracity of this 2011 2UE954 News Talk image of Thomson's alleged credit card details (showing a misspelled surname on the face of this card imprint) is not being questioned? A set of 1st-8th April 2005 documents which appear to have been eventually handed over to VIC or NSW Police by HSU officials as evidence of Thomson's alleged 'guilt', if the accompanying interview with Kathy Jackson is to be believed.
Michael Smith: "The card was also used to pay for escort agency services.
I have a copy of one of the escort agency credit card vouchers. It’s the old style one, where you put the card on the plastic slider machine, put the carbon paper voucher on top of it and swipe the slider over the voucher.
The carbon paper makes a clear embossed impression of the card. You can plainly see that the credit card that was present on that night had this on the front of it – Craig Thomson, Health Services Union."
At best this is sloppy reporting. At worst the information in red bolding is a bald lie. Thompson is not Thomson, no matter how you spin it, and any reputable credit card agency would reject the slip in question - rightly worried about the possiblity of identity theft.
Sunday 27 May 2012
NEWS FLASH: CSG miners have HUGE bladders?
Wednesday 16 May 2012
Are waters being muddied already in the Clarence Valley campaign to improve mental health services?
Thursday 16 February 2012
NSW Minerals Council is offering itself to government as the economic saviour of New South Wales
Friday 3 February 2012
The Group of Sixteen is not a ringing endorsement of the anti-climate change position
On 27 January 2012 The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece titled No Need to Panic About Global Warming. WSJ editor stated that this was signed by the 16 scientists listed at the end of the article.
To assess this opinion one needs to look closer at these signatories than just the name and job descriptions they supplied:
Tuesday 2 August 2011
Climate Change and YouTube
Some successful and not so successful YouTube user video lobbying on both sides of the Great Anthropomorphic Global Warming Divide*.......
http://youtu.be/yKUPUznJZoE
http://youtu.be/-zeGY8zbzc8
http://youtu.be/sSTLDel-G9k
http://youtu.be/eLs73KJI36w
http://youtu.be/S9ob9WdbXx0
http://youtu.be/CdvXWZxAAKQ
http://youtu.be/TQlHaGhYoF0
* Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency,
Debunking The Myths
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Willie Soon tells the world that porkers can fly
“One of the world's most prominent scientific figures to be sceptical about climate change has admitted to being paid more than $1m in the past decade by major US oil and coal companies.
Dr Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, is known for his view that global warming and the melting of the arctic sea ice is caused by solar variation rather than human-caused CO2 emissions, and that polar bears are not primarily threatened by climate change.
But according to a Greenpeace US investigation, he has been heavily funded by coal and oil industry interests since 2001, receiving money from ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and Koch Industries along with Southern, one of the world's largest coal-burning utility companies.
Since 2002, it is alleged, every new grant he has received has been from either oil or coal interests.
In addition, freedom of information documents suggest that Soon corresponded in 2003 with other prominent climate sceptics to try to weaken a major assessment of global warming being conducted by the UN's leading climate science body, the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Soon, who had previously disclosed corporate funding he received in the 1990s, was today reportedly unapologetic, telling Reuters that he agreed that he had received money from all of the groups and companies named in the report but denied that any group would have influenced his studies. ‘{The Guardian on 28 June 2011}
Porker flew in from Google Images
Monday 4 July 2011
For no other reason than this political comment appears to be getting up Gerry Harvey's nose [video]
http://youtu.be/7ZSRLbRQVHk
The Sydney Morning Herald 4 July 2011:
MFC and GetUp! had planned to launched a 60-second television commercial targeting Harvey Norman, which is a major TV advertising client.
But the groups said the ad had been refused classification by industry body Commercials Advice - which provides classification and information to advertisers, agencies and production houses - on the basis that it might expose free-to-air TV stations to legal action.
The ad was due to be shown during this week's State of Origin rugby league decider.
GetUp! national director Simon Sheikh said the classification decision amounted to corporate censorship.
"The reason given to us for the refusal was that running the ad may expose networks to lawsuits from Harvey Norman, but this assessment is beyond [Commercials Advice's] mandate," he said in a statement.
Markets for Change
‘NoHarveyNo: How Australia’s largest furniture and electronics retailers is driving the destruction of our native forests.’: Executive Summary and Report
Commercials Advice (CAD) 2010 Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Marohasy confirms she's a AGW denier and tries to stack Q&A with rehearsed audience
This I just gotta quote in full from Jennifer Marohasy's blog on the 12th October.............
"I should probably be flattered to be invited on to the popular ABC TV program Q&A as a panelist. But why is the promo for the program next Monday advertising Tim Flannery as 'scientist' and me as 'climate sceptic'?
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/
Tony Jones could refer to us both as 'scientists'. Alternatively the promo could suggest Tim is an 'alarmist' and me the 'denier'.
I am not even a climate sceptic… but rather sceptical of what was the consensus position on anthropogenic global warming.
Anyway, it would be good if there were a few other so-called climate change sceptics at the event… and also some people who don't believe more water for South Australia will necessarily solve all the environmental problems of the Murray Darling Basin. So, I am encouraging readers of this blog to try for a place in the studio audience next Monday by applying here: http://www2b.abc.net.au/AudienceBooking/Client/AudienceRegistration.aspx
And you can send in questions via email using this link http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/ask.htm
Also, the annual Australian Environment Foundation Conference is this Saturday at Rydges in Brisbane. Max Rheese is organising a Q&A session at the Conference dinner on Saturday night, to give me some practice in advance of Monday, October 18th. Apparently there will be a 'Tony Jones' at the dinner and through him you can ask me questions. It should be a lot of fun. You can register here: http://aefweb.info/ "
Thursday 30 September 2010
Telstra continues down the path to irrelevance as Thodey tries to woo MPs with canapés & cocktails
Sunday 30 May 2010
Australian mining industry piles on the tax distortions as it tries to win over the electorate
Image from Mumbrella