Compare and contrast 

 Thursday 31 July 2008, 3:15 pm    The Editor
 Categories: Environment, Politics   Tags: , , ,

Here is the good Doctor Brendan Nelson stressing the importance of developing considered and robust climate change policy.

Our very strong view Kerry is firstly that you’ve got to make sure in implementing an emissions trading scheme that it’s done responsibly, methodically… This is an extraordinarily important policy debate for Australia… It’s been a very important part of our process to go through the process of considering the policy of climate change.

Here is the good Doctor Brendan Nelson developing the Liberal Party’s version of considered and robust climate change policy.

In the party room… some backbenchers were angry that no written policy was presented to the meeting — which then proceeded to draft one. Mr Hunt and Ms Bishop wrote on a whiteboard as Dr Nelson dictated.

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  1.  Gravatar Toaf (Thursday 31 July 2008, 3:31 pm) # 

    Nothing could be more robust than dictating policy to someone who’s holding a whiteboard marker.


  2.  Gravatar Dam Buster of Preston (Thursday 31 July 2008, 4:28 pm) # 

    Obviously the process of developing a process to consider the process of developing a process was robust. A bit like holding a meeting to discuss the agenda for the meeting.

    I can see the back benchers now screaming “Use the Black Marker Bishop”


  3.  Gravatar brokenleftleg (Thursday 31 July 2008, 9:26 pm) # 

    Thirty odd years of warnings about global warming and the Libs finally break out the white board.
    This will be good.


  4.  Gravatar Darryl Mason (Friday 1 August 2008, 1:26 am) # 

    Flash bastards with their white boards. Butcher’s paper not good enough for them?

    Libs and Labor embracing the carbon tax, vowing to fight global warming and demanding whales not be slaughtered.

    In the battle of political ideologies, the Greens have won. Classy of Bob Brown not to rub it in, too much.


  5.  Gravatar Ross (Friday 1 August 2008, 7:55 am) # 

    Writing on whiteboards? What, did they run out of beer coasters to scribble on?


  6.  Gravatar Tobias Ziegler (Friday 1 August 2008, 1:57 pm) # 

    Was it one of those fancy whiteboards that lets you print out a copy? If not, did Brendan lock the door after Malcolm left?

    And where was Ros Kelly in all of this?


  7.  Gravatar John Surname (Saturday 2 August 2008, 11:07 pm) # 

    “Let’s bluesky this!”


  8.  Gravatar GrodsCorp (Saturday 16 August 2008, 2:43 pm) # 

    […] (Besides, Nelson prefers to develop his policies on whiteboards just minutes before they’re released.) […]


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