Quit dithering, Prime Minister

The Prime Minister cries foul and makes unsubstantiated allegations of cheating after The Conservatives continue to prove that they are the true party of environmental concern, with their submission of the Plastic Bag Eradication Bill. The Conservatives originally submitted the bill to the Parliamentary Business Committee on 4 November 2004, and again at the new PBC at New Parliament House initially on November 17, and again on November 25 after the House Clerk requested it be rewritten into a specific format.

The Prime Minister now claims that the idea was his and that he had been sitting on it since the beginning of the year. That begs the question: why have the Prime Minister and his party been dithering on such a serious issue for the past twelve months? Plastic bags are one of the biggest environmental blights today, with six billion plastic bags distributed in Australia annually. Unlike the supposed Social Democratic “Green” Party, The Conservatives take the environment and plastic bags seriously and will act swiftly to preserve Australia’s pristine environment.

If the SDGP were serious about environmental protection, and serious about plastic bags, then why didn’t they release their draft bill before The Conservatives? One must wonder what has happened to ‘Green’ meaning environmental concern, and if Brizza’s cohort of extremists has hijacked the term. If the SDGP are going to be so slow on environmental protection, then perhaps they should dump the ‘Green’ part from their name to avoid misleading the public.

At present the SDGP’s environmental record stands at zero. Time and time again, The Conservatives have shown themselves to be the party that stands up for the environment, with the first energy policy released which has now been adopted by the SDGP, and the Cleaner Energy Act which was written by Conservatives, and subsequently passed by the parliament. The record says it all, clear to see for everyone: the SDGP have failed the environment. Australians concerned about the environment have only one option, and that is The Conservatives.

Brizza and the SDGP need to quit whinging and either get behind The Conservatives on environmental protection, or admit they have no right to call themselves green. The real issue at hand is the SDGP’s sluggishness and failure to act for the benefit of the environment, so their deceitful leader has to continue living up to his reputation and spread his lies and hatred of all things Conservative.

Brizza’s allegations against The Conservatives are not only unsubstantiated, but also of a libellous, hurtful nature and the Prime Minister owes all Conservatives an apology for slandering them.

The Conservatives take the environment seriously and will not waste time in acting. Will the SDGP follow suit?