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Climate Change Performance Index is 'more about politics' than 'real facts' | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says a Climate Change Performance Index that ranked Australia as 56th in the world for emissions reduction 'is not about emissions' and 'all about politics'.\n\nMr Kenny said on Thursday the mainstream media - especially the government-funded media - 'is full of exaggeration, misinformation and downright fake news when it comes to climate change'.\n\nHe said the index is put together by 'climate activist think tanks in Europe' and it is 'clearly more about climate politics and grandstanding' than it is about real facts and carbon emissions.\n\nThe survey ranked the United States last, despite greenhouse gas emissions decreasing while its population increases.\n\n'Their commentary attacks Donald Trump of course and blasts the US for withdrawing from Paris,' he said. \n\n'Australia, likewise, is cutting emissions, is signed up to Paris and has invested a fortune - more than $60 billion - at great cost of all of us in renewable energy.\n\n'But they don't like our politics, so we are ranked 56th. It is that pathetic.'\n\nChina - whose annual carbon emissions are growing by more than Australia's total emissions every year - and India are ranked 30th and ninth respectively. \n\n'Australia is marked down for approving the Adani coal mine but the country that will burn that coal is placed 47 places ahead of us, even though of course, its emissions will rise strongly for decades to come.\n\n'This is the nuttiness of this survey... what fact-free, ideological tosh... It is that sad. Fake surveys. Fake news. Fake politics. \n\n'These people have learned nothing from the election. They still treat voters like fools.'\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n
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Qld Labor facing 'trainwreck' economic down turn | Sky News AustraliaThe Queensland government's 'huge mountain of debt' will mean it will be in 'deep doo-doo' if commodity prices go down, according to Sky News host Campbell Newman.\n\nThe Queensland government is $91 billion in debt as Deputy Premier Jackie Trad uses the 'pea and thimble trick' to offset huge public debt, Mr Newman told Sky News.\n\nHe said the commodity industry has 'propped up' the Queensland government as Ms Trad is 'happy to take the royalties' despite 'not liking' the coal industry.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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Greta Thunberg has been selected as 'Woke' Time Magazine's Person of the Year | Sky News AustraliaThe 'woke' Time Magazine's selection of Swedish activist Greta Thunberg as its Person of the Year is example of how 'political' and very left win the company is, according to Sky News host James Morrow. \n\nThe teenage environmentalist is the youngest youngest person selected for the honour since the tradition began in 1927.\n\nThunberg herself had admitted she was “surprised” by the decision.\n\n'But of course we all knew this [selection] was going to come down,' Mr Morrow told Sky News host Peta Credlin. \n\n'It's not the Time Magazine that we all knew and loved and grew up with 20 [or] 30-years ago, [now] it's a much different thing'. \n\n'It's a very political thing, it's very left wing, it's very woke'. \n\n\n\n\n
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Johnson has ‘nailed’ Corbyn on Brexit | Sky News AustraliaUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's clear position on Brexit will help the conservatives as voters go to the polls on Thursday, according to Sky News host Alan Jones.\n\nThe two major parties have vastly different policies on Brexit, with the Tories promising to leave the European Union by the end of January while Labour has promised to hold a second referendum.\n\nLabour is divided when it comes to Brexit, with many of its MPs in favour of remain but a significant voter base in the country's north are in favour of Britain leaving the European Union.\n\nMr Jones said Mr Johnson has “nailed” Mr Corbyn on Labour’s position on Brexit.\n\n
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Quiet Australians should 'speak up and speak out' in 2020: Credlin | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin has called on the Australian public to “speak up and speak out” on important issues as their 2020 New Year’s resolution.\n \nMs Credlin said the public should “resolve to speak up' and deny the left an “uncontested” platform to voice their political views in 2020.\n \n“Why should we be too polite to speak our minds?” Ms Credlin said. \n \nMs Credlin argued if those on the right of politics remain “silent”, society will “continue to drift in a direction that you and I don't like, and that the majority of Australians reject”. \n \nMs Credlin said it's beneficial for everyone if there is political discussion between “families, in our workplaces, around the dinner table and… in social media too”.\n\nAfter all, Ms Credlin said, the left certainly isn’t “shy” in “speaking up” and voicing their opinions about how “our world will soon end because we're wrecking the planet”.\n\nImage: Getty
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