Australian Media Rivals BBC for Commie Values

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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd attacked by 'leftie' BBC

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/kevin-rudd-attacked-by-leftie-bbc/story-e6frg6zo-1225811913767

KEVIN Rudd fell back on a standard [former Australian Prime Minister] John Howard retort yesterday when he was being given a hard time in a televised BBC debate about climate change.

The BBC's presenter asked the Australian PM whether he had been "put to shame" by the  carbon-cutting efforts of two much poorer countries, Mexico and the Maldives, whose leaders were on stage with Mr Rudd for the debate.

Rudd's first response was to attack what he apparently saw as the Left-wing bias of the public broadcaster.

"Why am I unsurprised by the questions of the BBC?" he asked before going on to defend his government's performance on climate change.

MALDIVES president Mohamed Nasheed gave Rudd a bit of a skewering during the debate by accusing Australia and other wealthy countries of being too complacent about the danger of climate change that could drown his island nation. ...



In the same article: British Parliamentarian Nick Griffin attacked by 'leftie' The Weekend Australian

NICK Griffin, the United Kingdom's most controversial politician as head of the neo-Nazi British National Party, is a fierce sceptic about climate change but attended the Copenhagen summit as a representative of the European Parliament.

"The whole thing is a farce and a waste of money," he told The Weekend Australian in the convention centre yesterday before asking for the phone number of Victorian Senator Steve Fielding.

Griffin said that he and the Family First Senator had similar views on climate change and he wanted to swap notes with Fielding, who has also been following the conference rather sceptically.

When The Australian called Fielding later to ask if he had heard from Griffin the Victorian said he had not, and asked for Griffin's number.

Insisting that "I know about him but I don't know him," Fielding said he would be happy to call Griffin to find out what he wanted.

He seemed surprised when told that Griffin was the head of a party that is deeply racist, and that most British politicians would have nothing to do with anybody from the BNP.

"I focus on specific policy issues when I deal with people, I don't care if they come from the Left or the Right,"  Fielding said, before rethinking his response.

"I'm not saying he's a good bloke or a bad bloke or anything about his policies. I will return his call to see what he wants and that's it."