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The Australian - Not drowning, waving

Mon, 2007-06-04 10:00 — matthew
Sian Powell refers to Beyond Zero Emissions' Danish wind power media release in her article "Not drowing, waving" Always ready to attack the Opposition, the Prime Minister said Labor wanted to address the climate change issue with a policy framed in Europe for European conditions: "as if Australia were a small, densely populated nation with high winds somewhere east of Denmark". The PM was referring to either Latvia or Lithuania, and it's true that neither of these Baltic nations have much in common with Australia. Intriguingly, a press statement issued by Beyond Zero Emissions at the time of Howard's speech noted Denmark had recently announced it hopes to use wind power to generate 75 per cent of the nation's electricity by 2025.

Not drowning, waving

* STREWTH
Sian Powell
* June 04, 2007

JOHN Howard was in presidential mood at the Liberal Party federal council over the weekend. Standing arms upraised and, rather worryingly, referring to himself in the third person, he accepted the crowd's adulation - knowing that he is fast coming to the last pages of a successful chapter in Australian politics.

Always ready to attack the Opposition, the Prime Minister said Labor wanted to address the climate change issue with a policy framed in Europe for European conditions: "as if Australia were a small, densely populated nation with high winds somewhere east of Denmark". The PM was referring to either Latvia or Lithuania, and it's true that neither of these Baltic nations have much in common with Australia. Intriguingly, a press statement issued by Beyond Zero Emissions at the time of Howard's speech noted Denmark had recently announced it hopes to use wind power to generate 75 per cent of the nation's electricity by 2025.

Jammed on message

OPPOSITION treasury spokesman Wayne Swan has distilled his message attacking the Government: 11 years and climate change. At two doorstop press conferences in Brisbane on the weekend, he stuck to the script. Yesterday, he said: "This is the 11th conference that John Howard has addressed as Prime Minister," and then on about climate change. On Saturday, it was much the same, 11 years and climate change, although this time about Treasurer Peter Costello: "And if you've ignored climate change for 11 years, and then ignore climate change in your major speech to the Liberal Party council then you simply don't understand the problem."

strewth@theaustralian.com.au

From http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21842375-25090,00.html