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Sophie Vorrath at RenewEconomy reports that both Senators Xenephon and Madigan spoke against the bill to abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). The Abbott government may not be able to complete their destructive war against renewable energy, even with the new senate next July. My understanding is that they need six votes from the cross benches.

Scott Morrison was on RN Breakfast on Monday 25 November, hosing down the idea that the diplomatic row with Indonesia over past spying on the Indonesian President and his wife might impede Operation Sovereign Borders. That was the day before we embarked on the  whole ‘Gonski is Goneski’ kerfuffle, created by Christopher Robin-Pyne who’s been clever as clever since he reached the age of six – and has stayed that way ever since.

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I’ve asked the question, but I’m sorry if you came here looking for the answer. I can’t give it to you.

We all know that she’s Chief of Staff to Tony Abbott and we all know the power she wields. She is in the news, almost daily, and it usually revolves around some form of use of this power.

The Commonwealth has announced a ‘root and branch’ competition policy review to, “help identify ways to build the economy and promote investment, growth and job creation. The PM said the review “will examine not only the current laws but the broader competition framework, to increase productivity and efficiency in markets, drive benefits to ease cost of living pressures and raise living standards for all Australians”.

Outsiders: outside of the mainstream media, not part of the Murdoch propaganda agenda, not interested in the ABC Liberal party PR machine.

The week was dominated by more Tony Abbott diplomatic failures, economic incompetency, back flips, double back flips, triple back flips on education, and Tony’s refusal to lower the flags to honour the life of Nelson Mandela.

Paul D’Amato explains why those countries that call themselves socialist are nothing of the sort, as part of his series on the ISO’s “Where We Stand” statement in the latest Socialist Worker US.

Rupert Murdoch hates the ABC. This is obviously not a hugely surprising statement.

First, you need to be very, very sure that you’re right. Not right-wing, mind you. Just right. About everything. You know this because, well, you’re always right aren’t you?

Did Peta Credlin ever own a t-shirt saying ‘Hang Mandela’? Did she ever wear it? Did she wear it in the United Kingdom, at a Tory Party Conference? Was it she that insisted our flag not hang at half-mast? Just …

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‘Is it true Tony Abbott once possessed fourteen ‘Hang Mandela’ T-shirts, which he sold to friends? Is it true he still has one? Is this connected with his refusal to hang our flag at half-mast in the hero’s honour?’

The above is almost certainly not true. But it is a demonstration of how McCarthyism works, and how easily Labor could use it, in the Abbott way, against Abbott himself.

And against his doorkeeper ‘Meddlin’ Credlin, Queen of the Kremlin’, a wonderful epithet soon to spread like wildfire through the social media, along with the usual rumours.