Tony Abbott Common Sense will prevail

Tony , in writing a new essay to argue Australia needs serious policy changes that will happen when “someone who’s prepared to do them will actually get elected”.

Cementing his intention to stay in politics longer than Turnbull, who plans to retire from parliament when he loses the prime ministership, Abbott has pledged to remain “as a vocal MP for as long as Liberal-conservative values need expressing. 

Writing in the Liberal party magazine the Contributor, Abbott argues that Australians are feeling “downcast and have much reason to be” but he tries to encourage his colleagues to remember their “challenge is not to fall silent, because a majority that stays silent does not remain a majority”.

 

He then lists his policy priorities, saying “we need to remember that good values don’t triumph because they have the numbers. They have the numbers because they have the appeal.”

 

He argues Australia needs to dramatically cut its immigration program (to take pressure off house prices), abolish the Human Rights Commission (because it has become “a kind of politically-correct thought police”), consider buying a nuclear-powered submarine (which would “strike fear into the hearts of any potential enemy”), and build a new coal-fired power station (to “keep the lights on )

 

Abbott argues in his essay that his policy priorities are “common sense,” and have the benefit of being inevitable.

 

 

“And because they’re common sense, they will eventually happen because someone who’s prepared to do them will actually get elected,” he writes.

 

“We need to remember that good values don’t triumph because they have the numbers. They have the numbers because they have the appeal.”

 

“All of us need to speak out more with our workmates, with our friends, with our family members, and with everyone interested in public life so that others will appreciate that decent values and traditional institutions continue to have their adherents.”

 SMH

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Abbott spruiking  "common Sense"   now there's a laugh!-- If he had another brain it would be lonely.

I have this to say to Abbott go away/get lost/we have had enough of you and your lies and idiocy, too many think of you as a down right fool, give up on your egotistical behaviour and buggar off!

Hi Plan B gotta differ on this one. 

Whatever you may think of Abott personaly he has stayed in the public arena and put forth policy ideas..

He could have retired from politics on a healthy pension plus earn a fortune in the Private area with his acedemic and public service CV as other exPMs like Hawke Keating and Gillard are doing . 

Regarding his policy proposals which do you disagree with?

 

He argues Australia needs to dramatically cut its immigration program (to take pressure off house prices),

abolish the Human Rights Commission (because it has become “a kind of politically-correct thought police”),

consider buying a nuclear-powered submarine (which would “strike fear into the hearts of any potential enemy”),

and build a new coal-fired power station (to “keep the lights on )

i can't see any of Tony's points that I disagree with

China is greening its coal fleet

Beijing is stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, China cannot eradicate coal-fired power from its energy mix overnight. China has not yet figured out how to develop its own natural gas supplies—which are more difficult to access and therefore more expensive than those in the United States—and renewable energy expansion takes time. On the other hand, Chinese citizens are demanding cleaner air, and they want immediate improvements. Air quality is now a political priority for the Chinese Communist Party on par with economic growth and corruption. This means that China cannot continue to run the same high-pollution coal plants that were considered acceptable decades ago. Beijing’s solution is to move full speed ahead with renewables while simultaneously investing in what may become the most efficient, least polluting coal fleet the world has ever seen.

Not all coal-fired power is created equal. Emissions and efficiency—the latter being the amount of coal consumed per unit of power produced, which also affects emissions—vary dramatically based on the type of coal and coal-burning technology used. What many U.S. analyses of China’s coal sector overlook is the fact that Beijing has been steadily shutting down the nation’s older, low-efficiency, and high-emissions plants to replace them with new, lower-emitting coal plants that are more efficient that anything operating in the United States.

tell it like it is Tone . Now if you can shake off that DLP nonsense maybe the Conservatives will accept you.

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