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Malcolm Turnbull our Australian PM is on his way home from the G20 summit.  I am proud of the way he presents on the world stage, yet he feels he needs from London to defend his liberal politics at home. It is shame that the PM he defeated in the party room, Tony Abbot, continues to undermine our PM by claiming that he is not true to the right wing conservatism of the Liberal Party.  Malcolm Turnbull today gave Mr Abbot a history lesson about how the founder of the Liberal Party, Sir Robert Menzies, saw liberalism as being at the Centre of politics, certainly not to the left nor too far to the right. Malcolm Turnbull is making headway as our PM by getting legislation through an often hostile senate (upper house of review) and is to be admired how he juggles the tensions within his party.  I defend him yet I am more to the left than him being a rusted in Labor Party voter.  All Mr Abbot is succeeding in doing is making the leader of the Labor opposition, Bill Shor...

Andrew Bolt a renowned columnist and blogger in Australia and an ultra conservative today puts forward a really skeptical view of climate change.  He cites authorities who say global temperature rises are not as much as had been forecast.  He even cites our own very respected Chief Scientist as saying that Australia's efforts to halt carbon emissions are only going to have a minor effect on the overall world results in this battle.  I hasten to add that this is not meant to indicate that our Chief Scientist says we should not participate in reducing global carbon emissions.  In a recent report on the whole issue of electricity supplies he sees a future for renewable energy but is realistic about the need for some continuing support for coal as a source of electricity as we gradually ramp up renewables. Elon Musk of Tesla has made a deal with the South Australian government to provide them with what he sees as the largest battery storage facility in the Southern Hem...