Now wash your hands (of responsibility)
Despite the ditching of the ETS, the Rudd government is still spending truckloads of money on the empty shell of its climate change policy. As The Daily Telegraph reported last week, a bloated government department is still being run for the purpose of administering a non-existent CPRS:
TAXPAYERS will fork out $90 million a year to keep more than 400 public servants employed within the federal Climate Change Department – despite most now having nothing to do until 2013.
More than 60 of them are classified as senior executive staff on salaries between $168,000 and $298,000 a year. Their salary bill alone will cost an estimated $12 million every year.
A further $8 million will also be paid in rent for plush offices at Canberra’s Constitution Place until 2012, where it is believed 500 new computers will be delivered this week.
It can be revealed that despite Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s decision on Tuesday to suspend the failed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme until at least 2013, the department has ruled out plans to cut back staff.
A formal response by department secretary Martin Parkinson to a Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday – the same day as the scheme’s suspension – claimed the department would not offer redundancies. (source)
Not only that, but thousands of (your taxpayer) dollars are still being wasted on pointless “climate change” reports, like this one reported on the ABC this morning:
A new report has found the health of Indigenous Australians living in coastal areas such as the Torres Strait could be at risk due to climate change.
The report commissioned by the Federal Government found climate change will elevate existing health risks for Indigenous people and create a whole new set of health problems.
They include respiratory illness and increasing incidence of heat stress and dehydration.
The loss of livelihoods and population displacement will also have a serious impact on the health and nutrition of those living in remote island communities.
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong [who she? – Ed] delivered the report while touring the Torres Strait. (source)
Now aren’t you glad that your hard earned money is being spent so wisely?
Australian Climate Madness 
So, they issue a race baiting report about how “climate change” affects non whites in an even worse manner? Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina pulls the same social engineering nonsense over here in the US in regards to African Americans and “climate change”.