Dear Incompetent........

Ever wondered how often the twitterverse calls Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott incompetent?

Wonder no more, the tweeted mesages of political 'love' run for pages - going as far back as 15 August 2010.

Here are a few recent examples:

	J. Willem van Egmond @JanEgmon
	Dear incompetent @TonyAbbottMHR why don't you resign. I keep on asking since most people think you should, you liar. But your heart is coal

	The New Daily @TheNewDaily_
	Latest poll rates Tony Abbott as more incompetent than Julia Gillard. Is it too late to repair the damage? bit.ly/1s3TDgv
	View summary

	leisa @leisasmith2
	.@TonyAbbottMHR the poll is in. Untrustworthy AND incompetent. Tell us something we didn't know. Now the whole country is waking up.

@Dynamic_Drifter @dynamic_drifter

Why do we need News poll to tell us that @TonyAbbottMHR is incompetent? A dark day for you, Tones. #auspol

		Roger Crawford @sixoh60
		Half of Australians Think Tony Abbott is Incompetent shar.es/13ppQW via @ShareThis #Auspol

Jim Pembroke @Jim_Pembroke

.@Wersula Let's just be clear about this. Poll shows @TonyAbbottMHR is the most incompetent Prime Minister ..........EVER ! #auspol

	Major Tom @cyenne40
	In a Dilbert world, the more incompetent you are, the higher you get promoted. Which explains why Tony Abbott is PM. #auspol

Quiet_Please @Quiet__Please

Abbott, seen by the people to be incompetent & untrustworthy, is a liability for his government #auspol m.smh.com.au/national/tony-…

	Ross Bowler @BowlerBarrister
	Tony Abbott was an incompetent & a liar as Opposition Leader@OverTheHill4 @ThePinkLaptop Now he is an incompetent & a liar as PM

George @OverTheHill4

The polls confirming what twitter has been saying all year TonyAbbott is incompetent and a serial liar surrounded by more incompetents

	It Aint Half Hot Mum @FlatEarthGang
	The most untrustworthy & incompetent PM ever. Tony Abbott is the problem with the federal govt, poll. #auspolm.smh.com.au/national/tony-… via@smh
	Pete @ozipetezar
	@TonyAbbottMHR to radically change PPL just another about turn from this incompetent PM how many back flips is that now I've lost count.

	Dame kristy_lee @LeeYve1965
	@Rowans_tweets @abc730 @leighsales @TonyAbbottMHR That he is still incapable (incompetent) in delivering

	Cindy-Lee Harper @Clharper4Lee
	Video: occams-lazer: Karl Stefanovic ruining our Prime Minister. TonyAbbott is such an incompetent idiot... tmblr.co/ZLoZgq1W-n_EJ

	Lord Finnigania 平大王 @Thefinnigans
	You want to see where Abbott is heading, just look at his past -nofibs.com.au/2013/04/01/ton… - an incompetent unprincipled weather vane bully
	View summary

#BootThemOut @daveyk317

Not once have we seen #AbbRORT give a #npc like @billshortenmp is now. He is INCOMPETENT. imatthewsblog.com/2014/11/15/ton…#auspol #abcnews24

Comrade Matt @Shoobah_Shabooh

@oldkhayyam @vincentwight They achieved one thing. They all learned what an incompetent PM @TonyAbbottMHR is.

Steve Gibbons @SteveGibbonsXMP

Obama oration brilliant, off the cuff, no notes! @TonyAbbottMHR just proved to the rest of the world what an incompetent fool he really is!

D. @tumblingdiceAU

Tony Abbott may be the most utterly embarrassing and incompetent public figure I have EVER seen. And that is saying something. #auspol

		John Wren @JohnWren1950
		.@TonyAbbottMHR your stupid statement re 16 years away being of no concern sums up ALL that is wrong with your incompetent govt #auspol #G20
	St Comrade Badhamus @vanbadham
Tony Abbott is a warmongering incompetent trying to hide a bad budget by inciting racism, religious persecution, hate & fear. #auspol

Something to think about as many of us frolic by the sea over the holidays

Something to think about from the NSW Dept. of Environment, Climate Change and Water as many of us in New South Wales frolic by the sea over the holidays:

The NSW Government has adopted a Sea Level Rise Policy Statement (NSW Government 2009) to support consistent adaptation to projected sea level rise impacts. The Policy Statement includes sea level rise planning benchmarks for use in assessing the potential impacts of projected sea level rise in coastal areas, including flood risk and coastal hazard assessments, development assessment, coastal infrastructure design processes and land use planning exercises.

These benchmarks are a projected rise in sea level (relative to the 1990 mean sea level) of 0.4 metres by 2050 and 0.9 metres by 2100 (Department of Environment, Climate Change

and Water (DECCW) 2009). The projections were derived from sea level rise projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) and the CSIRO (McInnes et al

2007). These benchmarks will be periodically reviewed…..

Depending on the rate and scale of sea level rise, the environmental, social and economic consequences, in particular within low-lying intertidal areas, are expected to be significant.

In addition to open coast recession and higher inundation levels, saltwater intrusion and landward advance of tidal limits within estuaries will have significant implications for freshwater and saltwater ecosystems and development margins, particularly building structures and foundation systems within close proximity to the shoreline. Existing coastal gravity drainage, stormwater infrastructure and sewerage systems may become compromised over time as the mean sea level rises. Sea level rise will also influence entrance opening regimes for intermittently closed and open lakes and lagoons (ICOLLs). The level of protection provided by existing seawalls and other hard engineering structures will decrease over time due to the increasing threat from larger storm surges and inundation at higher projected water levels….

Increasing mean sea level over time will have two primary impacts within and adjacent to tidal waterways:

 increasing still water levels over time and

 subsequent recession of unconsolidated shorelines.

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* Photographs found at Google Images

The $61 million plus royal commission into trade unions fails to get the only scalp Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was after

http://www.tradeunionroyalcommission.gov.au:

The Commissioner John Dyson Heydon AC QC handed his Interim Report to the Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove at Government House in Canberra on Monday 15 December 2014.

The Interim Report was tabled in Parliament on 19 December 2014.

Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption Interim Report–Volume 1 [PDF 5.7MB]

Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption Interim Report–Volume 2 [PDF 11MB]

Statement of the Hon Julia Gillard - Dec 19 2014 by Bruce Wolpe

Australian Press Council tippy toes around climate change "theories or predictions"

The Australian Press Council found a Crikey journalist should not have used the word “hoodwinked”, rejected the remainder of John McLean’s complaint and, then carefully moved on tip toes around the subject of global warming and climate change. Presumably in the hope that Tony Abbott and Andrew Bolt’s winged monkeys would not descend in angry hoardes.

Adjudication 1618: John McLean/Crikey (November 2014)

The Press Council has considered a complaint about an article by Elaine McKewon headed “Big Oil-backed climate denier who hoodwinked Fairfax” on the Crikey website on 13 January 2014.
The article described John McLean, the author of an article published in Fairfax newspapers, as being “misinformed”, “falsely presented as an expert on climate science”, “not affiliated with any university”, and having “no verifiable qualifications in the field of climate science” or “standing or expertise in climate science”. It also said he was a member of the ICSC which was a body aimed at “discrediting authoritative science on climate change” and had funding links to the oil company Exxon.
Mr McLean said the claims about his lack of standing and expertise were inaccurate and unfair. He denied deceiving the newspapers about his expertise and said that, in any event, they were under no obligation to publish only the opinions of climate science experts. He especially criticised the word “hoodwinked” in the article’s headline. He also complained that the statements about his links with the ICSC and its funding were inaccurate and unfair.
The Council considered that the word “hoodwinked” in the headline could reasonably be read as implying that Mr McLean had actively deceived the newspapers and readers. As no reasonable basis for that implication had been provided to the Council, this aspect of the complaint was upheld.
Mr McLean’s claims to standing and expertise, however, were not of sufficiently compelling force to establish misrepresentation or suppression by Ms McKewon in that respect. The same applied to his criticisms of her references to the ICSC and its funding. Accordingly, these aspects of the complaint were not upheld.  But it was emphasised that this conclusion did not amount to a finding that her claims were necessarily correct. It also did not involve an endorsement or rejection of any particular theories or predictions about climate change warming and related issues.