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