Pssionate and serious revolution is a battle of wills

Treasurer, Joe Hockey - it is his
 intent to dismantle the good work
 of the Labor Government.

In a passionate and deeply serious recent interview comedian Russell Brand argued that a revolution was coming.

Forget about the revolution in which men stood toe to toe and slaughtered each other for what we are witnessing, for the moment, is a somewhat more sophisticated difference of opinion.

Australia’s recent federal election saw you and me dump the sitting Labor Government in favour of a Coalition Government led by Tony Abbott.

Labor had worked hard in a less than positive political environment with a hung parliament to press ahead with several innovative legislative changes that won sweeping praise for Australia from those in the world community who understood the seriousness of climate change.

The Abbott-led Coalition, then in opposition, mischievously, and inaccurately, portrayed the work of Labor as simply wrong and most Australians, unable to vision life beyond the end of the decade, threw their lot in with Mr Abbott and his cohort of Liberal and National Party climate change skeptics.

Since its election on September 7, the government has moved quickly to erase all the climate change mitigation  steps taken by Labor, including the scrapping of the carbon tax and just today the ABC reported in a story headed: “Bill Shorten says Labor wants carbon tax replaced by ETS”, that the Coalition’s ambitions will not be realised easily.

In what is rebellious if not revolutionary, the government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation, that had been directed by the new Treasurer, Joe Hockey, to stop lending money has defied that order and is still fulfilling its mandate.

In another story published today headed: “Clean Energy Finance Corporation defies Government call to stop lending”, explains that the Coalition intends to dismantle the corporation.

The Brand revolution looks like being more a “battle of wills” than a battle in the traditional sense.