Soooo much going on

1. Unlike Copen­ha­gen, Sydney seems to have the right idea about what to do with squat­ters.

2. Every­body I like (it seems) blogged about Keat­ing call­ing it like he sees it yesterday:

“The thing about poor old Cos­tello is he is all tip and no ice­berg,” [Mr Keat­ing] told ABC Radio.

“He can throw a punch across the par­lia­ment but the bloke he should be throw­ing a punch to is Howard, but of course he does­n’t have the ticker for it.

“He has now been treas­urer for 11 years. The old coconut is still there araldited to the seat. The treas­urer works on the smart quips but when it comes to star­ing down the prime min­is­ter in his office he always leaves dis­ap­poin­ted. He never gets the sword out.”

Mr Keat­ing dis­puted sug­ges­tions that Mr Howard had taken the high moral ground by accept­ing the resig­na­tion of front­bencher Ian Camp­bell, who admit­ted his meet­ing with Mr Burke was an error of judgment.

He said for Mr Howard to get to the high moral ground, he would first need to climb out of the vol­canic hole he had dug for him­self over the last decade.

“It is like one of those dia­mond mine holes in South Africa. They are about a mile under­ground,” he said.

“He would have to come a mile up to get to even equi­lib­rium let alone have any con­test in mor­al­ity with Kevin Rudd.”

Mr Keat­ing said he could always tell when Mr Howard was under pres­sure – his shoulder star­ted to twitch.

“I notice on the TV lately the shoulder is going. He is in trouble. He could have given the job to Cos­tello and got out at the right moment,” he said.

“But he is hanging on like grim death. Now all of a sudden he is up against it.”

Mr Keat­ing said Mr Rudd had said all the right things and his advice to him would be to move on.

“If you want an elec­tion about mor­al­ity, bring it on,” he said.

(Love your work, Mr Keat­ing. Wish you were still PM.)

3. Event ahead:

Tune to the Heat is a clas­sical music con­cert to end the resignation
people have that they can’t make a dif­fer­ence to cli­mate change. With
sup­port from the Aus­tralian Con­ser­va­tion Found­a­tion (ACF), the concert
will be held on Sunday March 11 at 3.00pm at the Augustine Centre in
Hawthorn.

Together with music from some of Mel­bourne’s great musicians,
‘Aus­trali­a’s Incon­veni­ent Truth’ will be revealed in a presentation
given by Gil­bert Rochecouste, who has been per­son­ally trained by Al
Gore for this purpose.

TUNE TO THE HEAT
Venue: The Augustine Centre, 2 Minona Street, Hawthorn
Time: 3:00 PM – 5:15 PM concert
Date: Sunday 11th March
Cost: Free (with optional Gold Coin Donation)
pre­b­ook by email­ing: tunetotheheat@yahoo.com.au – or just show up