umop 3pisdn
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Minister for Trade, Warren Truss brought this up in parliament today, sort of.umop 3pisdn said:Garrett, for example, has already heartily endorsed Tim Flannery, whose ideas are much the same as Brown's. So Labor have this problem of professing to be stronger on climate change than the Coalition, but not being willing to do anything that the experts (doom preachers) demand, particularly while they're still so anti-nuclear.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,21203850-664,00.html
What you really have to do if you believe in stopping climate change.
He mentioned about 1 in 8 of our export dollars comes from the coal industry, and much higher than that in Queensland. It also keeps some regional areas alive.
Apparently Bob Brown is now describing our coal as a sort of global heroin supply feeding the world's addiction, so the > 30,000 coal industry workers are like heroin dealers, and at the same time Labor are negotiating preference deals with these guys.