October 13, 2011

One of the worst aspects of living in these apocalyptic times is that whenever you look around the world, wondering where you might escape to, you begin to realise that everywhere else is just as bad if not worse.
Take Australia, an island built on fossil fuel with an economy dependent on fossil fuel. What would be the maddest economic policy a place like that could pursue as the world tips deeper into recession? Why, to introduce a carbon tax, of course. Which, for reasons just explained above, means a tax on absobloodylutely everything. Which is exactly what Julia Gillard’s Coalition (why is it that word always makes me want to reach for my Browning?) has just gone and done, obviously.
What must be particularly galling to all the…
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Or perhaps you have a different collective noun for such a grouping – say a “pack of morons”.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/labor-greens-coalition-viable/story-fn59niix-1225911615505
Speaking from the U.K., James could be expected to refer to a grouping of red-green politicians as a “coalition”anyway. The term is so common in Europe it has a wikipedia page;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-green_alliance#Red-green_coalition_governments
So yes, in Aussie terms, Tony Abott leads a coalition of Liberal /National MPs, but to use the term for Gillards government certainly is not unprecedented either.