A few things I have come across I find worth noting, each of which puts a different complexion on things. First this, with the strangest imaginable headline from the SMH, What Martin Parkinson can offer Malcolm Turnbull wherein I read:

Parkinson is the treasury secretary Abbott unfairly sacked against the wishes of his treasurer.

Who knew there was such a debate at the time? Joe’s idea of a fresh start was to keep Wayne’s Secretary of the Treasury, the one who had previously run the Department of Climate Change.

And then this, from Andrew Bolt re the 12,000 Christian refugees we are bringing to Australia:

Of the four families in the first wave of approvals, two were Sunni Muslim and two were Christian: Assyrian Christians from Mosul in Iraq, and Chaldean Catholics from Baghdad.

The people most endangered ought to be the ones we offer refuge to. Why not continue the policy that had already been put in place?

And finally, as we head to Paris, this is the latest news:

In Asia alone this year power companies are building more than 500 coal-fired plants, with at least a thousand more on planning boards.

You could shut down the whole Australian economy and it wouldn’t make a jot of difference to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. I should become like my Canadian friends who are visiting and who I met up with yesterday. They both carefully read the press, Canada’s national daily even, The Globe and Mail, and conscientiously watch the news, specially the CBC. Therefore, they did not know that global temperatures had not risen for nineteen years, had never heard the phrase “hide the decline” and thought the most damning thing they could tell me about Stephen Harper was that he forbade public servants from speaking at conferences without prior approval of their Department Head.