Not good at communicating…
Kind of like ditching your girlfriend via text message. Strange the government was so shy in telling its own staff that the ETS had been scrapped, when it plans to spend millions of your taxpayer dollars (in breach of its own advertising guidelines) about how the nasty, evil mining companies are “misleading” the electorate on the super profits tax:
SENIOR officials in the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency were unaware of the government’s decision to shelve the emissions trading scheme until it was leaked to the media, a Senate estimates committee was told yesterday.
The department’s secretary, Martin Parkinson, said the decision had also left many officials ”terribly, terribly disappointed”.
Dr Parkinson said staff were establishing ”time capsules” of their work to be opened ”whenever this current impasse is broken and we can have an appropriate debate … around climate change”. ”For many people, they could see their hard work, their commitment and their professionalism was not going to have a pay off at the moment,” he said, though he respected the Prime Minister’s decision.
Dr Parkinson added ”there is no point gilding the lily” and there were people within the department who ”were terribly terribly disappointed” about the decision to delay.
”For many people they could see their hard work, their commitment and their professionalism was not going to have a pay off at the moment.” Dr Parkinson said.
Read it here.
Australian Climate Madness 
Too embarrassed about it all, I expect.. and rightly so, considering the very thin ground on which the premise is based.
“terribly. terribly embarrassed”. They should be “terribly, terribly ashamed” of being part of the fraud. Now they can possibly be more effective and productive in another part of the bureacracy although I am not holding my breath!!