Compare and Contrast

It may be a shock to see actual journalism, but compare this from Reuter's to ANYTHING you've seen in this country on the Carbon Tax. It's a sorry day when you can't even get good information on a domestic topic from your own national news.

Passage of the Carbon Tax and Liberal tantrums

The Carbon Tax bills have passed. The Liberal Party, of course, have thrown a tanty that would do any red cordial-hyped toddler proud.

In the weird world Senator McDonald I am apparently a... Nazi? WTF?

Senator Ian McDonald's latest obscenity, wherein he describes activist group GetUp! as "the Hitler Youth wing of the Greens political movement." Well, Senator hope you've got an extra pair of undies on today, because I'm about to tear you a new one.

Congratulations Senator on your new award BTW...

Tony, the man with a plan... maybe...

A dissection of the effects of the Carbon Tax on households, the Coalition's alternative, the 'blood oath' and just what the hell might be going on in the peanut shell that acts as Tony Abbott's skull.

The Gray Panthers strike

Okay, so why are all you Carbon Tax protestors old? No, I'm not being ageist, I'm not saying you're less capable of protesting or your concerns are of less worth because you're advanced in years. It's just...

Dude, seriously, why are you all OLD?

I'm not a spring chicken myself. I'm no skinny hipster with ironic 80's facial hair, that's for sure. But... no really why are you all so damned OLD?

I mean you're not even going to be around when the real serious environmental shit starts to happen. Is that it? You don't want to be affected by any measure to prevent catastrophic climate change, because you won't be alive to deal with it. Is that why you're all so damned old?

Okay, so... no wait I can't get my head around this. Half of you are within coo-ee of retirement... and... okay so wait, is this why all those anti-carbon tax ads were on during Harry's Practice and Born and Bred and All Creatures Great and Small and Heartbeat - because they're old folks shows?

Are you guys only protesting because you believed those ads that were on during your stories?

Don't get me wrong. I'm not dissing the shows - I kinda like Heartbeat. The anti-Carbon Tax ads stir me from my dozing during the show, they fire me up and get me mad. Sure beats those denture paste ads, and staircase escalator ads, and weekend away auction trip-thing ads. Those ones send me to sleep.

Yeah, so where were we?

Oh yeah, so why are you all old?

What the world thinks - our Carbon Tax

Avaaz, the international human rights advoacy group, has taken note of the Murdoch Press' attempts to skew national perceptions on our government's attempt to put a price on carbon, and is running a petition (link below). Check it out, and if you are so inclined, feel free to sign it. Make no mistake either way - industry lobby groups, large swathes of the Australian media, and a good chunk of our Parliamentarians are all lying to you shamelessly to scuttle any and all attempts to do ANYTHING about carbon emissions and climate change.

The petition is here.

Some additional things to read and think about;
Opinion piece from the SMH
Australia overtakes US in CO2 output
UK PM Cameron on Carbon Tax

The Carbontaxapocalypse

Update: Since these ads first appeared, they have now been modified to have a political statement blurb at the end. This shows at the very least that they always had a political intent.

Why the ATI anti-carbon tax ads make me want to throw my TV at the heads of about half of our wealthiest 10 Australians, who - by pure coincedence - all happen to be mining magnates.