Written By:
all_your_base - Date published:
4:48 pm, September 28th, 2007 - 2 comments
Categories: climate change -
Tags: climate change
Here’s one for the books. Matthew Hooten on 9 to Noon this morning:
PRESENTER: Ah, right, we better start with climate change policy announcement… How do you think it went, Matthew.
HOOTON: Well, I have to say it was probably the most successful policy announcement by a government in a democracy that I’ve ever heard of.
And later on, commenting from his background of involvement as a lobbyist for the forestry sector:
So what the Government has able to demonstrate here is it did take into account what it heard and that gives people confidence, I think, not just in climate change, ah, but across the board that the Government will listen…”
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Wow – is Matthew Hooton attempting to become a serious investigative journalist – ala Ian Wishart?
Because, if he is – its taken him long enough to pick up the ball. Credit where credits due is always the easiest.
Maybe he doesn’t see much of a future in advising a National-led administration…