Federal Member for Fraser Bob McMullan, Federal Member for Canberra Annette Ellis and Senator for the ACT Kate Lundy have expressed their deep concern about apparent plans from Shadow Minister for Finance Senator Barnaby Joyce to take an axe to Canberra’s public service. Speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra, Senator Joyce said that [...]
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Senator Humphries does ETS backflip and squirms on Liberal plan to cut public sector
Senator Humphries has today defined a new extreme in political contortions as he performed a complete backflip on his previous hand-over-heart commitment to wanting an ETS for the sake of the environment. In addition, he had nowhere to hide when challenged about Shadow Finance Minister Senator Barnaby Joyce’s plans to pay for the Coalition’s climate [...]
Front bench position in return for ETS back flip??
“What is going on in the Liberal Party where power and influence and control of the party means more than policy in climate change one of the greatest moral challenges as well as political and economic challenges of the 21st century,” Senator Lundy said. Liberal Senator for the ACT, Gary Humphries is going to serve [...]
Humphries back flip on ETS ensures Canberra misses out
Canberra is “missing out” thanks to ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries decision to not support the Governments amended CPRS. His opportunity to finally act on his regular PR spin [1] “now there’s a real solution” [2] for the people of the ACT. In an interview on Lateline on the 30th November Senator Humphries said “I [...]
