Politics,Climate Change and Sundry issues

Politics,Climate Change and Sundry issues
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Monday 2 March 2015

Malcolm Turnbull: Rain man

Malcolm Turnbull: Rain man



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Leader of the Liberal Party wets and heir apparent to the
prime ministership, Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is popular amongst
progressives, however Sydney bureau chief Ross Jones thinks he's a drip.




Malcolm Turnbull is a rolled-gold dickhead.



Bright when he was young. Like his opponent, a Rhodes Scholar. Rich,
successful, pumped. Mr Internet. One half of Australia’s pre-eminent power couple.




But a dickhead.



Rough assessment?



Despite the apparently glorious overarching narrative that is Malcolm’s life, even including his 1999 republic disappointment/failure, two events afford even the most casual observer a glimpse directly through the emperor’s clothes — Raingate and Utegate.



A leader does not make decisions like these.



In the week before the 2007 Ruddslide election, reported the ABC's Matt Hoy, when the Libs knew they were gone big time:



'… Mr Turnbull found the time to announce that the Government,
already in caretaker mode, would bankroll to the tune of $10 million the
investigation of an untried Russian technology that aims to trigger
rainfall from the atmosphere, even when there are no clouds.'





Malcolm had another agenda of course.



Requests for interviews with Mr Turnbull, the head of the Australian
Rain Corporation, the head of the centre contracted to test the device
were declined.




So, $10m as caretaker environnment minister on untested hocus pocus. It seems the bucks were destined for associates.





Matt Hoy again:



Emanating from affluent suburbs like Vaucluse, Rose Bay and
Watson's Bay, Malcolm Turnbull's fundraising group the Wentworth Forum,
includes a long list of generous donors including Frank Lowy, Ros
Packer, John Simons, and Matt Handbury, chairman and part-owner of the
so-called Australian Rain Corporation, beneficiary of the Minister's
funding....




Mr Handbury is the wealthy nephew of Rupert Murdoch and chairman
and proprietor of Murdoch Books, which is the headquarters for
Australian Rain Corporation.




The 7.30 Report put to Malcolm Turnbull the following questions:
has Matt Handbury's contribution to your fundraising Wentworth Forum
helped in securing funding for the Australian Rain Corporation?




"There is absolutely no connection," he said "That is an outrageous suggestion".



Secondly, why couldn't the Matt Handbury Swiss consortium pay for its own research?



Response: "The company is contributing funding to the research and trial."



Our final question to the Minister was why should this not be
seen as securing funding for one of your electorate supporters ahead of
an election the Government is tipped to lose?




Mr Turnbull did not directly answer this question ...




Then there was Utegate and Godwin Grech





Poor Godwin. Ended up in care. We can only conclude Malcolm is a poor judge of scam artists.



Make no mistake, Turnbull is as cunning as a shithouse rat. But
he, too, has many barnacles. The Libs would be mad to anoint him.




Here’s hoping.



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