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Australia will not be signing a communique at the Paris climate summit about phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.
Nationals MPs and senators were concerned the pledge could affect the multi-billion-dollar diesel fuel rebate for farmers and miners.
The communique is due to be presented tonight, but a Federal Government source has told the ABC Australia will not be signing it.
"Hooray," Nationals deputy leader Barnaby Joyce said when told the news on Radio National.
"It just goes to show what a successful political unit the National Party is and I want all your listeners to know that.
"It's a win for common sense and the National Party."
Industries such as agriculture, fishing and forestry can access a rebate on the diesel excise paid.
The fossil-fuel subsidy reform communique encourages countries to phase out subsidies to help limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
The Nationals argued the fuel rebate was not a subsidy.
"There's a tax that goes on your road usage, now if you're not on a public road why should you pay a tax on road usage?" Senator Joyce asked.
"When you plant a crop you don't plant it in the middle of the M1, when you're out working with cattle you're not out on the Cahill Expressway.
"The same thing goes with mining vehicles they're in a mine they're not on a public road."
Earlier on Monday, Queensland Liberal-National MP George Christensen urged the Government not to sign the communique.
"To sign this is madness. It will cost jobs & give greens ammo to attack coal further," Mr Christensen said on Twitter.
The Government initially sought to downplay concerns the statement would affect the rebate.
Acting Prime Minister Warren Truss said nothing out of the Paris talks would have "any impact" on the scheme.
But after considering the matter, the Government has decided not to sign the document at all.
Why so many people touching the poop 
If nobody else does the xmas month thread. I'll do it. It won't be pretty.
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Well thanks for excluding all the muslims, jews, athiests, budhists, doaist etc. from your insensitive greeting. gently caress You!
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It's OK to talk about how completely inappropriate it is that Christmas is a public holiday now that it's December, right?
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James Ashby’s diary admission: Wyatt Roy told me to do it
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/james-ashbys-diary-admission-wyatt-roy-told-me-to-do-it/story-fn59niix-1227628798013
quote:Peter Slipper’s staffer James Ashby says he contacted police yesterday to formally agree to be interviewed about alleged illegal copying of his former boss’s diaries in a bid to clear MP Mal Brough.
Two weeks after Australian Federal Police officers raided the homes or offices of Mr Ashby, Mr Brough and another former staffer, Karen Doane, the former political adviser said he had proof the newly elevated Minister of State was “an innocent’’ in the scandal.
Instead, Mr Ashby said he had a document that would show it was Queensland Liberal MP and frontbencher Wyatt Roy who had told him he should copy the diary of Mr Slipper, the then Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Mr Ashby said he first spoke to Mr Roy in 2012 about his alleged sexual harassment by Mr Slipper and that the then first-term MP had later sought advice from Innovation Minister Christopher Pyne.
“Wyatt said he didn’t really know how to advise me and said he wanted to speak with Christopher Pyne,’’ he said. “He then called me back and I went and saw him in his office and he presented me a sheet of paper with instructions of what I should do, and one of the first steps was to get a copy of the office diary.
“That is how I came to be printing off a copy of the digital diary — it was evidence in my case.’’
Mr Ashby said his lawyers had the sheet of paper and it “would undoubtedly have Wyatt’s fingerprints on it’’.
A spokesman for Mr Roy declined to comment, but it is understood he claims only to have told Mr Ashby to “diarise events” if he intended to file any action.
Mr Ashby said Mr Roy had said he did not want any further involvement, and it was then that he approached Mr Brough for help.
“I met with Mal and he said at one stage that he was interested in Slipper’s use of taxpayer entitlements and about a few trips he had taken to New Zealand and I said I had a copy of his diary and would check it out,’’ he said.
“So I went home and pulled the copy of the diary out of my cupboard, took some pictures of the relevant dates and sent them to Mal. He couldn’t read them and texted me and asked if I could send them again — that’s hardly procuring me.’’
Last year Mr Brough told the Nine Network that he had asked Mr Ashby for copies of the MP’s diary in 2012 for his use.
According to the search warrant, Mr Ashby is alleged to have “accessed restricted data’’ without authorisation and communicated the material to a third party between March 23 and April 12, 2012.
Mr Brough is alleged to have “counselled and procured’’ Mr Ashby to access restricted data — contrary to Section 478.1 of the Criminal Code — and to disclose extracts from Mr Slipper’s “official diary’’ without authority — contrary to Section 70 (1) of the Criminal Code — on the same dates. Both offences carry a maximum sentence of two years’ jail.
Mr Ashby last year alleged Mr Pyne and Mr Roy had offered him a lawyer and job security but withdrew the offer before he sued the former Speaker for sexual harassment in April 2012.
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- Lid
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And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
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Abbott amd credlin were straight up banging each other, right?
Lol. Just lol.
Todays update
quote:Why was he prepared to lose power rather than lose Credlin?
It was "a deep co-dependency", says a senior public servant who saw a great deal of Abbott and Credlin together. A common way of explaining their closeness was to put it down to them having an affair.
Some Liberals and even people from outside the party confronted Abbott before the February spill over the affair he was supposed to have been having with Credlin, the least original rumour in Australian politics. They were worried less about the reality than the perception. Some feared that it could cost him the prime ministership, and told him so.
He dismissed it as he always did, as "just bullshit". Abbott consistently refused to dignify what he described privately as "smut" by taking any steps to dispel the gossip. There was always a stream of innuendo, never any evidence.
"Because I'm a male and she's a female, why does it have to be improper?" he said to a confidant. "I think the talk says more about the colleagues than it says about Credlin and me." He described Credlin and her husband, Brian Loughnane, as both very good friends of his.
Another said: "He would sometimes become visibly agitated when he was separated from her, if they had to travel in separate cars or even if she didn't emerge from the lift pronto when he was expecting her." It was "the most extreme of these sorts of co-dependency relationships between a prime minister and a chief of staff" according to Professor Walter.
So, still a lot of innuendo and unsubstantiated but the article doesn't outright say it was a falsehood or a smear.
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- Negligent
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Its just lovely here this time of year.
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Imagine Tony Abbott's cum face
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One Nation, Under God.
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Imagine Tony Abbott's cum face
Quite probably the same as Agent Smith after absorbing the Oracle.
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- AgentF
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After waking up, I feel well enough to go now, just with a very course voice.
No shouting games like the Resistance for you then. More like games where we stare menacingly at each other like Sheriff of Nottingham.
Come say hello to me when you arrive. I'll be the Board Game Helper with short hair and glasses.
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- HookShot
- Dec 26, 2005
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TWO THREADS ENTER, ONE THREAD LEAVES
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- Birb Katter
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BOATS STOPPED
CARBON TAX AXED
TURNBULL AS PM
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I don't know what to do but I'm excited that I was alive for this moment in time.
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