Not long after Texas oilman and US President Bush pulled the United States out
of the Kyoto global warming agreement, the Australian Liberal government is
planning
to follow suit. The ALP, Democrats and the greens (big surprise there) have
condemned the proposal; though what matters may be what the swinging voters of
the outer suburbs would say. The Libs may try to spin those in favour of
keeping to the Kyoto treaty as an out-of-touch chardonnay-socialist elite who
would raise petrol prices for dinkum aussie battlers; after all, if the
World's Leading Nation can tear up an agreement, why can't we?