NEW Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman, orders ex-Queensland Premier's husband, Greg Withers, to kill green schemes. That's according to an article in today's The Australian:
"The showpiece of the Gillard government's $1.5 billion Solar Flagships Program is now in jeopardy, after Mr Newman yesterday pulled the plug on $75 million in state funding pledged for the $1.2bn Solar Dawn solar thermal project near Chinchilla, west of Brisbane.
"[Federal] Resources Minister Martin Ferguson yesterday suggested the federal government might withdraw its own $464m contribution, promised only last month...
"Mr Newman yesterday declared his LNP government would axe seven other green schemes, on the grounds the carbon tax would make them redundant...
"Mr Newman has given the job of dismantling the programs to the bureaucrat who set them up - Greg Withers, who is married to Ms Bligh.
"We want him to unravel those programs 'cause he's the bloke who set them up...
"Mr Newman has given the job of dismantling the programs to the bureaucrat who set them up – Greg Withers, who is married to Ms Bligh"
Is there a way of getting Gillard's partner to dismantle the Fed Labor party? Hmmmm.