Grim faced
As the Herald Sun puts it, channelling the spirit of Mark Latham. Well, what else can the poor chap do? He’s claimed climate change is the greatest moral challenge since the dawn of time, but then drops the ETS like a hot rock when it looks like the public don’t like it. Not content with that, he then pretends that climate change is still at the forefront of Labor policy. What a joke!
THE PM has been accused of petulance and likened to Mark Latham after a fiery outburst during a television interview last night.
Some of his political opponents compared the prime minister’s performance on ABC Television’s 7.30 Report with former failed Labor leader Mark Latham.
“He’s starting to lose it,” opposition frontbencher Andrew Robb said.
The night before, a visibly angry Mr Rudd dismissed a suggestion he had shown political cowardice on climate change by deferring his carbon pollution reduction scheme until at least 2013.
“(Climate Change Minister) Penny Wong and I sat up for three days and three nights [so what? – Ed] with 20 leaders from around the world to try and frame a global agreement,” he said.
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Mr Rudd’s deputy Julia Gillard defended her boss saying he was passionate about climate change action.
“You’re seeing the prime minister articulate the policy but also the passion and enthusiasm to deal with this question of climate change in that interview.”
Opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne dismissed that description of the interview, saying Mr Rudd was “just petulant”.
His colleague Greg Hunt went further: “He is making wildly erratic decisions and morphing into Mark Latham, but without the conviction.
“It appears that under the slightest pressure the prime minister is looking increasingly out of control.“
Read it (and watch an extract) here.
Australian Climate Madness 
“Mr Rudd’s deputy Julia Gillard defended her boss saying he was passionate about climate change action.”
Yes, well he’s also passionate about his vege’s. So passionate in fact that he can reduce a 23 year old female flight attendant to tears if he doesn’t get a plateful.