Infrastructure costs are what gives our "Infrastructure Prime Minister' a leg up

Tony Abbott wants to be known at the “Infrastructure Prime Minister”.

Oddly, and in a strange turn of events, it was infrastructure costs that catapulted him and the Liberal/National Parties into power.

Mr Abbott and his coalition cohorts constantly blamed the Labor Party introduced carbon tax for the massive increases in power costs, when it was actually the unrestrained investment on infrastructure in their infrastructure that ignited the massive rises in power costs.

Cost increases attributed to the much maligned carbon tax were miniscule compared, while the real driver of cost increases was a huge investment by power companies on their respective infrastructures.

In a story headed: “Power Corrupts” The Monthly tells us how network companies lined their pockets and drove electricity prices through the roof.

We talk and the world's health wastes away

Our world’s wellbeing is sadly being subjected to a debate; a debate we should not be having.

Robeert Manne.

Humans have changed the earth’s climate through its voracious appetite for all things that emit carbon dioxide and that has, unquestionably, impacted on our atmosphere resulting in global warming.

Extreme weather events our now commonplace all around the earth and yet many still boldly declare the peer reviewed science of most of the world’s best climatologists is wrong.

Australian intellectual and thinker, Robert Manne, has written in the current edition of The Monthly about A Dark Victory: How Vested Interests Have Defeated Climate Science.