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Media Release Inquiry needed to assess impact of a changing climate on NSW’s beaches The Greens will seek to send legislation that will grant propertyowners the right to build, without development approval, temporary seawalls on beaches as protection against rising sea levels to aParliamentary Inquiry this week. “If this Bill goes ahead it will begin the fortification Continue Reading →
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South Korean officials have revealed that scientists detected high levels of radioactive gas after the communist North claimed it had successfully staged a nuclear fusion reaction last month.
North Korea announced last month it had conducted a nuclear fusion reaction, a claim met with much scepticism in the South because of the technical difficulties of staging such an experiment.
But now officials in Seoul have revealed that South Korean scientists detected extremely high levels of xenon gas near the border between the two Koreas.
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally … is under fire from voters who think she has lost control of the NSW Government. Source: The Daily Telegraph
The new State Liberal MP for Penrith Stuart Ayres with his partner Federal Liberal Senator Marise Payne and NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell at Penrith after his win. Picture: Jeff Herbert Source: The Daily Telegraph
THE gloss has worn off for Kristina Keneally, with polling revealing voters think the Premier is not in charge of her Government and that she should be held to account for ministerial scandals.
Labor copped a record 25.5 per cent swing in Saturday’s Penrith by-election – worse than the 23 per cent swing former premier Nathan Rees suffered in Ryde in 2008.
Labor’s John Thain won just 24.4 per cent of the primary vote, less than half the 50.9 per cent claimed by Liberal Stuart Ayres, and the Greens 12.6 per cent. On a two-party-preferred basis, the Liberal party was ahead 66.3 per cent to 33.7 per cent.
Ms Keneally yesterday tried to put the blame for the defeat on former member Karyn Paluzzano, who quit after she was caught lying to ICAC, saying it was a warning that all members needed to act with “integrity”. She refused to accept personal responsibility for the rout but “humbly accepted the verdict of the people of Penrith”.
It’s a case of every man/woman to save themselves or go down with the SS Kevin Neville Gillmore. Kevin Rudd health adviser quits From: AAP June 20, 2010 9:18AM Minister Kevin Rudd’s top mental health adviser has quit, accusing the government of a lack of vision and commitment to a problem Continue Reading →
Kevin Rudd told to sort mining tax or face axe
KEVIN Rudd is being urged by senior party figures to quickly resolve the mining tax debacle or face certain defeat at the upcoming federal election.
Influential former ALP strategist Graham Richardson said yesterday the resource super-profits tax fight with the mining industry was hurting the Prime Minister “every single day”.
“If he doesn’t resolve that tax very soon, in the next week or two, then I don’t think he can (win),” Mr Richardson said.
“Queensland is going so badly for him now over this mining tax that it’s going to be be very hard to recover.
“Here is a simple message from the miners – the mining industry is the backbone of our recovery, if you destroy that, you can destroy our economy. It’s a pretty simple message and Labor hasn’t come anywhere near counteracting it.”
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Disappointed: Kristina Keneally blamed anger at Karyn Paluzzano for the party’s poor result. (ABC Mildura Swan Hill: Deborah O’Callaghan)
Experts say the record swing away from Labor in yesterday’s Penrith by-election is a cause for concern for the New South Wales and federal governments.
Liberals candidate Stuart Ayres received a 25.5 per cent swing away from Labor – beating the record set in the 2008 Ryde by-election.
Labor’s primary vote in Penrith was also halved since the 2007 election.
The ABC’s election analyst, Antony Green, believes Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will be closely analysing yesterday’s result.