“Premier Anna Bligh has refused to commit to the setting of a state greenhouse gas emissions target, despite news the Smart State is Australia’s worst air polluter.

The Queensland Conservation Council has been pushing for the State Government to set its own target as part of a review of its fledgling Climate Smart 2050 policy, results of which will be made public next month.

It follows revelations by a leading conservation group this week that the Smart State produces more greenhouse gas emissions than anywhere else in the country.

Premier Bligh said the existing Climate Smart 2050 policy did include a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emission targets to 60 per cent below 2000 levels by 2050, however the target was a national one.

The document makes no reference to a Queensland-specific target, despite the state’s poor record of slowing greenhouse gas emissions.”

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/premier-wont-be-drawn-on-emissions-target/2008/06/26/1214073420137.html

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/website-glitch-may-have-cost-business-realtor/2008/06/26/1214073420889.html

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Can’t wait to see how Springborg goes campaigning with McArdle during the next election campaign but I suspect he will be tearing his hair out as well as being unable to make himself understood.

“Today’s Newspoll showed on a two-party preferred basis that Labor leads the coalition 52 per cent to 48, compared to 61 per cent to 39 four months ago.”

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/labor-support-takes-biggest-hit-since-2005/2008/06/26/1214073415859.html

Strangely enough, I have not heard even one person at work ever mention The Borg.

Nothing wrong with this poll. No way was it possible to sustain the 60/40 that it was at or near in the last few polls. This cannot be construed as the Bligh “floundering” as the Aust. tried to make out last night, nor spun in a way to comfort Conservatives. She has an approval rating of 62% mind! And she is preferred Premier 2.5 to 1! (Who says anyone wants to get rid of her?)

Polls have just come back to normal that is all. The Conservatives are probably gaining a little credibility back from their own people by the effort of trying to merge, and a few of their own people are starting to indicate that they will now vote for them again.

I thought you beauty, the Borg has finally decided to make himself competitive and has done the hard work of releasing his tree clearing policy, daylight saving policy, Traffic Congestion Policy etc..

But no it was just the usual carping, negative list of problems as the Pineapples see them with no solutions in sight.

Then I noticed a symbol down the left hand corner and thought – great- the Pineapple Party have developed a full on Pineapple as their symbol. Progress at last – but,no, they had just stolen or borrowed the Queensland Parliament symbol to try to add some element of authenticity to their lame ad. All in All an expensive waste of money for which no doubt, the Courious Snail will be grateful.

//everywhere I go people are talking Borg, wanting a change, they just need a safe pair of hands. Springborg is no star performer, but Queenslanders don’t need one, they just want to get rid of Bligh. //

HA! The smoking room in the Queensland Club, and the electorate office in which you work, are hardly representative of community attitudes.

I speak to a lot of ‘real’ people and the strong impression I get is that the Libs and Nats are regarded as an absolute joke, incompetent, disorganised, dishonest, hopeless, petty, scheming, hostile to education, hostile to the environment and mired in internecine squabbles.

Bligh is seen as being extremely competent, with the only regular negative raised being the stacking of the Public Service with party hacks who aren’t appointed on merit (this mainly from public service friends who see themselves as very competent but have lost out on promotions to said party hacks parachuted in).

In short, it’s only the incessant barrage of Labor bashing from News Ltd (which are the only rags in town in Brisbane and in much of regional Qld.) which has knocked the gloss from Bligh.

Note that the votes haven’t flowed directly to the Opposition – it seems a lot of people wanted to send a message to Labor in this poll – ‘Pull your finger out on the environment – get stuck in and do what you said you would do on addressing global warming..’ by parking their response with the Greens.

In an election, it will still be a massacre.