You can watch the interchange between Penny Wong and Greg Hunt on the 7.30 Report last night on climate change policy here.
I didn’t find it very edifying.
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Neither did I, Kim.
I’m just astonished that the Greens weren’t invited to participate. What was the ABC thinking??
Also, Hunt spouting crap about ‘direct action’ he’s argued against in his own postgrad work was pitiful.
Yes it was unedifying, particulalry from Hunt.
Wong has been in “Clam” mode almost back to the beginning of recorded memory, but canny in her presenting, because she is so high profile as to be very adept now at deflection with a straight face.
Yep, Christine Milne should have been there, and it should have been the whole half hour rather than a segment at the end of the show.
Yes, I’m surprised they didnt invite the only one of the three major parties with a committment to a carbon price.
Its ironic and a little sad to see two people who have a good understanding of the issue in a position where they have to defend the appalling policies of Gillard and Abbott.
It would be nice if Hunt and Abbott stopped the scare campaign about electricity prices. But hardly surprising when the government never bothered to explain the assistance to households under the CPRS. If the government was less generous to polluters under the CPRS, there could have been more money available for households, making the assistance easier to explain.
This is the gist of what I got of their policies. Labour will do nothing much until 2012, while the Liberals will do nothing at all until 2015.
Apart from the rebates to households for installing solar panels on their roofs and similar energy saving schemes, Gillard has stated that Labour is leaving it to the states to build, or rather assist private corporations in building, major installations using renewables such as geothermal and wind. Gillard has parsed her words to give the impression that they are actually doing stuff at the federal level on renewables. I listened very carefully to Wong for clarification on this, but what I heard was the same weasel words used by Gillard. As far as renewables goes, it’s mostly image with little substance.
There’s too much risk of real debate if someone like Christine Milne is involved. Or if either participant had been allowed to remove the albatross per Peter’s idea. I find this junk really hard to watch because it’s such bad acting (in both senses) and there’s so little content. Even reading thew “policy” documents from both parties is better than that.
The Greens are not a Major party.
Oh, we’re missing the chance for better options through other match ups. How about putting Joyce and Fielding in a room with CCTV and seeing what happens. It could’nt be less informative than Wong/Hunt and would be a damn sight more entertaining. Watching Wong and Hunt last night reminded me of an occasion when I sat through an execrable rendition of Godot under the influence of some lizard brain skank. I don’t which event was worse but they both induced the same feelings of blooming anxiety, panic and irrational suffering at the hands of idiots.
You missed the best bit then where Greg Hunt strongly suggested that the ALP were resonsible for over 200 house fires and four deaths.
I was hoping to get that rise out of someone Razor!
The policies are pretty appalling, but my subjective impression was that O’Brien was hassling Wong towards the end, while he let Hunt go on and on.
Back in the 1980s the ABC under attack for bias used to indulge in word-counting.
So I did it on this one. Copied the transcript into Word, cut and paste them into three piles, and then they were easy to count.
It turns out that Wong got out about 25% more words than Hunt. Hunt opened the batting and a lot of her words were in a couple of early salvos, whereas Hunt had more to say towards the end.
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