Andrew Bolt's Blog 19/4/19; It's about time somebody stood up to Murdoch; Self -Interest drives the LNP to lie and cheat and it's shown here;

'Propaganda': Why a fed-up Bill Shorten has turned on News Corp.

Let's all join him

Bill Shorten is throwing out Mark Twain's famous advice and taking on the Murdoch press. Murdoch's business model is based on playing to the world of money, and that's not 90% of the nation or the globe. In fact his audience the everyday working Joe is jumping ship and getting their news elsewhere. It becomes increasingly apparent you won't find News and Information in any arena Murdoch owns. He has become the Goebbels of conservatism joined at the hip with the IPA and the extreme of the LNP. The only way to make a difference and return Democracy back to the country is to show that cartel the way out. (ODT) 

Once, politicians lived by these words. In Australia, it meant you didn't pick a fight with Rupert Murdoch and News Corp, which accounts for 60 per cent of daily newspaper sales.

 The public attacks follow his declaration that he has no intention of meeting Murdoch personally, breaking with the practice of past Labor leaders.

"It's just become fairly apparent that they are acting as a propaganda arm of the government," one senior Labor source says. "We know that they are going to do everything they can to help the other side stay in power."
Another party operative says some MPs and political staffers have "had a gutful" of particular newspapers and cable news channel Sky News, which has become a hub of conservative commentary since News Corp took full control in late 2016.
One News Corp employee observes that Shorten is the first Labor leader to seek the prime ministership without working hard to keep Murdoch on side. Former leaders Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard sought to woo the billionaire before relations soured in government.

 Briefing notes show Coalition approved Adani water plan despite knowing of risk | Business | The Guardian

 PROOF YET AGAIN OF THIS GOVERNMENTS SELF-INTEREST. Adani does the same in India (ODT) 

“Instead of backing its independent scientists and protecting the interests of our communities and the environment, the government shoved through a critical approval for one of its major donors, the ACF’s Stop Adani campaigner, Christian Slattery, said.
“This is a breach of the trust Australians should be able to have in their elected representatives.”

SHORTEN KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING OR HIS CRAZY PLAN

LOSING THE UNLOSEABLE? Bill Shorten doesn't know the cost of his huge global warming plan. He doesn't know what difference it would make to the climate. He doesn't know key facts about electric cars. He doesn't know we're actually getting fewer cyclones. What on earth does he know about global warming and his reckless plan to "stop" it? My editorial from The Bolt Report.

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 Andrew Bolt doesn't even know how to make his link work. He truly is a totally 21st Century wholly produced man whose tech crew and producers have let down. He's reading from a script while the planet is burning crying that politicians need cost the assistance, we must give first, if we are going to help ourselves. Can you picture Bolt asking the same question during the Bubonic Plague or Australia's assistance during the two great wars? Bolts question "how much will it cost" is meant to frighten us. It didn't then and won't now. They did what Nike said "just do it" However the fact is Bolt's question has been answered, and he's just not telling.
" Australian National University Professor Warwick McKibbin said federal government policy to reduce carbon emissions would subtract about 0.4 per cent from the economy by 2030 under the two main targets being put to voters."

 "Relative to what the size of the economy would be in 2030, the impact is a small fraction," Professor McKibbin said.

He also backed the use of international carbon permits to help achieve the targets, lending weight to Labor's plan to use these offsets while the Coalition refuses to do the same. 
Federal Election 2019: Key economist Warwick McKibbin lends weight to Labor’s climate policy
So should we invest? What do we risk and what is the cost of doing nothing and listening to Andrew Bolt telling us the planet isn't warming at an alarming rate and extreme weather conditions aren't happening, and that science is just another Religion. Even his mate Tony Abbott has turned on him. Bolt keeps silent on that score.
Firstly the government's role is to facilitate private enterprise to help them invest by having a national plan for a transition to lower emission not be the masterminds and financiers of it.
That transition is already happening on a global scale and Bolt telling us at worst to stop assisting or at best to go Dutch "  While the cost to achieve 26% or 45% carbon reduction is minimal if global Carbon credits are bought and emissions are reduced. " With everything taken as a given, a target of 45 per cent is probably going to have twice the economic cost to a target of 26 per cent," Professor McKibbin said.
"But if you can buy permits at a reasonable price, then the economic cost would be the same, and that's a reasonable argument that Labor is making."


"Permits have been accepted as a means of reducing carbon abatement," Mr Frydenberg said in April last year. "That can be used quite effectively to help reduce some of the pressure on energy-intensive businesses."
Mr Abbott has opposed international permits for many years and led the pressure to halt the emissions scheme within the NEG last August.

Everyone has backed a price on Carbon, Science, Economists, Business Council of Australia, Producers, Corporations Financiers and investors but LNP lobbyists and donors Murdoch the IPA and the LNP have formed a cartel against it pushing for profit over investment. The cost is what happens if we do nothing. The LNP has rushed and passed the Adani mine through lying that scientists had approved their modelling verbally when the scientists themselves are screaming liars and bullshit at the Minister.
Just how stupid are these people running their mouths off showing their ignorance with arguments like we are going to save the lives of  400 million Indians by opening the ADANI mine when Adani is known as a pariah in his own country?

 Adani no saviour of India’s poor, despite the rhetoric

The same applies to electric cars; it's been costed and proved the use of electric vehicles will help reduce the price of electricity not raise it. The LNP destroyed the car industry in Australia they can't kill the production elsewhere, and all the major companies are going electric private investment is going green, and Bolt can't stop it. Weaponising Climate for short term gain in an election shows he's just a foot soldier for the mining and fossil fuel lobby and has no interest or responsibility past his hip pocket.
 

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 When Tony Abbott was prime minister, he ordered more Australian strike aircraft and troops into Iraq. Not because Australia was big enough to turn the tide of battle against the barbarians of Daesh, so-called Islamic State or ISIL. But because he believed in the fight.Australia's commitment ultimately made up less than 1 per cent of the combined effort against the terrorist thugs but it was early and firm.

 
"Even if carbon dioxide, a naturally occurring trace gas that’s necessary for life, really is the main climate change villain, Australia’s contribution to mankind’s emissions is scarcely more than 1 per cent," Abbott said last year.

On terrorism, Abbott argued for Australian leadership. On climate change, he argued for wilful helplessness. Australia is a 1 per cent contributor in both cases. In one case, it used its 1 per cent to show leadership and effective action. On the other, it used its 1 per cent as an excuse for inaction.