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Speech to the House of Representatives
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bills 2010
8 February 2010

Mr Speaker:

All of us are here accountable not just to our constituents but to the generations that will come after them and after us.

One of the most important and urgent challenges in government today is how to make significant longer-term policy change in a political world run essentially as a game over the 24-hour media cycle.

TONY Abbott thinks his finance spokesman, Barnaby Joyce, could become another ''Black Jack'' McEwen, the Country Party leader who wielded enormous power in the 1950s and '60s.

What a week this has been. A week where we were blessed both by flattering attention from the great and the good of the wider world, and by a deeper understanding of the further limits of human sanity.

The Leader of the Opposition has promised to hold the budget to ransom in a bid to stop global warming. Revealing his long-awaited plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions this week, Tony Abbott said his scheme would not involve a huge new tax. Instead, as a first step, he would talk to big emitting industries and call on their better natures.

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Keane’s speculation of whether Google will comply with the laws of the Australian Government is interesting, however it should be noted that Google has operated within the Chinese regime for many years. It also abides by the laws in Thailand requiring it to filter from its search results any criticism of the Thai king and filters Nazi propaganda content from its German search results.

There is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression, UK psychologists have said.

The study, reported in the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were "internet addicts", and many of these were depressed.

World of Warcraft Three Worgen Moon T-Shirt

I slipped into my Three Worgen Moon T-Shirt and stepped confidently out of the Dalaran sewer. Blood elves immediately swarmed around me and started giggling uncontrollably. I couldn’t tell if they were male or female (who can?) but they were obviously attracted to me. I strode confidently into the Violet Citadel and told Rhonin I was going to kill the Lich King. He said "You need help." I responded, "Three Worgen Moon is all the help I need." Rhonin shook his head, apologetically. I expected a wise mage to know more about the power of Three Worgen Moon.

A COALITION government would create a $1 billion fund that would be used to purchase initiatives aimed at reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has announced.

• 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed;
• 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently;
• 7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs;
• 5 to hate on the spell checkers;
• 3 to correct spelling/grammar flames;
• 6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb";
• 6 more to condemn those 6 as "newbs";
• 2 Community Manager's posting to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp";
• 15 know-it-alls who claim to be friends with Dev's and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct and that CM's often post incorrect info;
• 19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum;
• 6 Elitist idiots from top guilds to post that they changed a lightbulb 6 months ago and unless its a server first it's not worth posting;
• 11 to wonder what kind of light bulb Leeroy Jenkins uses;
• 14 Alliance whiners to cry that Horde camp all the light sockets, and don't allow alliance to change them;
• 8 Horde to post that alliance do it to and to stop crying;
• 36 to debate which brand of light bulbs has the best stats and looks the best;
• 7 to post rumors about lightbulbs from boss drops in AQ;
• 10 to start a Light Bulb Guild;
• 20 to form two opposing Guilds;
• 13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too";
• 5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy and that anymore of this will cause them to cancel their subscriptions;
• 4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?";
• 13 to say "check thottbot before posting questions about light bulbs";
• 5 to inform everyone that light bulbs are ridiculously overpowered;
• 6 hunters to say "OMG NEWBS HUNTER WEAPON";
• and, finally, 1 idiot to bring up Chuck Norris.

WHEN, in 2001, the human genome was sequenced for the first time, we were confronted by several surprises. One was the sheer lack of genes: where we had anticipated perhaps 100,000 there were actually as few as 20,000. A bigger surprise came from analysis of the genetic sequences, which revealed that these genes made up a mere 1.5 per cent of the genome. This is dwarfed by DNA deriving from viruses, which amounts to roughly 9 per cent.

On top of that, huge chunks of the genome are made up of mysterious virus-like entities called retrotransposons, pieces of selfish DNA that appear to serve no function other than to make copies of themselves. These account for no less than 34 per cent of our genome.