It appears that Europe is celebrating the demise of the Australian conservative government and indeed the downfall of Johnnie. Apparently it was front page news in several countries including Spain and Germany. The main reasons - Kyoto, human rights and our relationship with the 'shrub'. I think the close proximity of so many nations and people puts a stronger emphasis on society, people and environment and we have perhaps been more than preoccupied with matters economic (at least from a governmental viewpoint). It appears that we have been sheltered from our international reputation and it has been disappointing, though not altogether unexpected, to hear the feelings about Australia that have been expressed to us here. Our reputation as people is cast by the same mould as defines the policies of our government...I guess that's democracy. So what happened? - were we being misrepresented, not heard or just messed up? The good news is that the signing of Kyoto by Australia has been celebrated by the whole of Europe and hopefully signals the beginning of the rebuilding of our international reputation from the pile of crap that it is now.
One of the many wind farms we have seen during our travels...(no evidence of dead birds, deafening noise or palls of smoke)
Interested in Climate Change? see Clean Energy for Eternity there ya go Matthew!
My one and only comment...back to a travel blog!
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