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Tag: floods

  • Leader of the second bureaucracy

    Abbott on Gillard’s decision to establish a “rebuilding inspectorate”: By putting in place this new body, this new bureaucracy to oversee the flood and the storm spending, they have accepted that the public don’t believe they can be trusted with money. You should not need a second bureaucracy to ensure that the first bureaucracy spends…

  • Abbott’s contribution

    There is something terribly misanthropic about this sentence: PS. Click to donate to help our campaign against Labor’s flood tax This is the flood tax intended to pay for the rebuilding of Queensland’s public infrastructure, and the sentence appeared in an email sent by Tony Abbott. I know it’s your job to oppose things Tony,…

  • Taxing Tony

    First, the following disclaimer: hypocrisy doesn’t make you wrong (as I’ve [intlink id=”833″ type=”post”]mentioned before[/intlink]). I cannot therefore accuse Tony Abbott of necessarily having the wrong idea about Gillard’s flood levy, but I can say that the man is a weasely hypocrite: Abbott himself tried (during the last election campaign) to draw a ludicrous distinction between…

  • Dams might be the new controlled burns

    The Queensland flood disaster continues in tragic and dramatic fashion, though Sri Lanka and Brazil have it even worse. However, there is a yet more pressing concern in some quarters. You see, this isn’t just about lost lives and property, but about the future of market economics. The real question is: how can we blame this…