Indeed, the only concrete policy issue touched on on Monday night was to confirm the Abbott regime's whacky "Direct Action" climate policy. It looks like Malcolm has learned from his mistakes as it was his commitment to an emissions trading scheme (ETS) that allowed Abbott to take his job as opposition leader by one vote.

That is a slight worry – an early example of Liberal Party politics trumping policy from the get-go of his prime ministership. Analyse Turnbull's first public words as PM and they were as much about hosing down his party's right wing as promising the nation better government.

People living in Mandurah are rich. Many are retirees and those who can afford it, have beautiful mansions by the river/lake/waterways. But with Turdy's suicidal disdain of global warming, these mansions will be drowning by 2120. By 2090, the water level, lapping the sea walls, will be destroying their lawns — and this with only a 2 degrees Celsius increase on present average temperature worldwide.

Voting for Tony Abbott will only accelerate this drowning process because Abbott plans to inject more and more extra CO2 in the atmosphere. "Coal is the future of humanity" says Tony...

Good luck to you, waterfront owners. 

Here we see in this morning OZ front page a couple of gigantic opinionated garbage. First the column on the right is denialist poop about Global warming... The personnel quoted is linked to a dubious outfit that has no credibility whatsoever. The Global Warming Policy Foundation is a DENIALIST organisation that uses scientists with confused views all designed to help the coal and fossil fuel lobby carry on as usual... In a couple of years, when the shit hits the fan, they will disappear into thin air, like the garbage they give out. 

Guess what... Lawson, Lord Monckton and all the other fantasists are part of this kennel. Do not believe a word of what is printed here on this subject. It's detritus.

No matter how long he stays in office, Tony Abbott is likely to be Australia's last monarchist prime minister. Here's why, writes Tim Mayfield.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he is prepared to "step up to the plate" and increase the number of refugees Australia accepts from war-torn Syria, but within the current humanitarian intake.

Our world is a funny place and we try to make as much sense of it as there is no sense in it... But we try and try and try... Eventually we have to decide on what makes "our" world tick. We are necessitating the unnecessary beyond that of survival.

And some people do it with the news of god... rather than the news of the day...