ABC reports that Federal Coalition MP De-Anne Kelly says Australia must increase coal exports as part of the solution to global climate change. It would be funny if half the species on the planet weren't going extinct because of climate change. One day we hope that climate deniers, obfuscators and industry accomplices will be tried in international criminal courts for their deliberate inaction and lies.

'It would be a wonder if a law so framed showed any fixed principle in its administration. The history of its whole operation for years has been an unintelligible chaos, in which the rights and interests of all mainly concerned have been the sport of accident, political interest and departmental disorder'

The tentacles of ecofishers are long and far reaching, able to probe many deep and dark nooks and crannys

The comedy comes because there is nothing funnier than people being deadly serious

"In an age of global warming, it is Neanderthal to talk about expanding the burning of coal"

"We feel that we have achieved product differentiation from the coalition on that matter" (Explaining why the ALP State Government didn't need to do anything meaningful about climate change and coal consumption.)

“Coal is King in the Port of Newcastle” (Australia is the biggest exporter of black coal in the world, and Newcastle’s current contribution is about a third of the nation’s total – amounting to 225 million tonnes of carbon dioxide after burning.)

"At the moment some very deep dark consultation is continuing on that matter." (When asked about why it took 12 months for the Ocean Trawl EIS to be finalised The Hon. IAN MACDONALD)