“There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead,” said J. Gillard before last election.

Now she says she will introduce one next July.

Greens Party spokeswoman, Senator Milne, commented, “Majority governments would not have delivered this outcome.”

Correct. If Australia was a democracy, and majority opinion decided policy, the carbon tax nightmare could never happen.

Is our future to be determined by an ALP (which arguably lies) dictated to by a Greens Party (which arguably blackmails)?

Next election is a long time to wait.

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Opposition Leader, Mr Abbott — warning of soaring power bills and petrol prices — is talking about a “people’s revolt”.

A trendy choice of words — but how to make it happen?

Will ordinary Australians arise from the sofa and sit outside Parliament House — making themselves a nuisance until the army is sent to shoot them?

It seems unlikely.

We know that rent-a-crowds can, indeed, be assembled in Australia.

For example, the APEC Australia 2007 meetings were disrupted by 5000 assembled protesters.

NSW Police erected a security perimeter around much of inner city Sydney. They allegedly had a list of 60 notorious “excluded persons”, to be kept far from any APEC activity.

Eventually 17 protesters were arrested. Two police officers were injured — one struck with an iron bar.

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If we aren’t comfortable about semi-professional stirrers doing our protesting, what alternative is there?

Should the Church be doing something?

Cardinal Pell has made it clear that he is a “man-caused-global-warming” sceptic.

This prompted Bureau of Meteorology Director, Greg Ayres, to devote 10 minutes of his address to the Senate last week to criticising and belittling Cardinal Pell — trying to make him look like an ignoramus.

In fact, he simply made himself look like a would-be dictator.

Cardinal Pell must be doing something right.

His reputation for integrity means that his doubts re fundamentalist Climate Change dogma may hopefully encourage ordinary people to feel free to think for themselves.