Greg Hunt - Lol!!

[i-need-a-martini]

In an internationally broadcast interview with the BBC, when asked the question about the link between bushfires and climate, Hunt says Australia has always had bushfire and he knows they are not linked to climate change because "he looked it up on Wikepedia".

And then this:

In his heated BBC interview, Mr Hunt rejected a claim that Mr Abbott had labelled climate science as ''absolute **bleep**'' and asked interviewer Razia Iqbal not to be rude.

''In Parliament our Prime Minister has expressed clear support for the science,'' Mr Hunt said before Iqbal pressed him again.

''So [Mr Abbott] no longer thinks it's absolute **bleep**?''

''Look,'' he said ''with great respect… you can invite me from Australia to do this, you can be profoundly rude, I'm happy to answer but I'm not going to be sworn at.''

''Mr Hunt, I'm merely quoting your Prime Minister,'' Iqbal responded.

What a first class dodo. And the rest of the world must think we are a bunch of neanderthals.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/greg-hunt-taps-wikipedia-for-bushfire-backing-...

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/greg-hunt-taps-wikipedia-for-bushfire-backing-...

[polksaladallie]

I am so happy that we now have the cream of the crop looking after the country.

[twinkles**stars]

swearing is not acceptable. 

[polksaladallie]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

swearing is not acceptable. 

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Huh?

[lakeland27]

of course it is (well apart from here) the interviewer used exactly the language tone did.

[twinkles**stars]

you missed the bit where he complaimed about the swearing? 

[twinkles**stars]

so it depends on the tone used? no

[**meep**]

In an internationally broadcast interview with the BBC, when asked the question about the link between bushfires and climate, Hunt says Australia has always had bushfire and he knows they are not linked to climate change because "he looked it up on Wikepedia".

LOL, he should haven known better and realised that it would be taken out of context, precisely like the above ^^^^

That was not what he said.    What he meant was - he looked up wikipidia to see what common knowledge is available to the rest of the world   (since we've had some strange statements released on this topic from various official sources)

If I may quote wikipidia here

Greg Hunt:

"Australia has since European settlement and obviously well before that, had a history of recurrent bushfires. I looked up what Wikipedia says, for example, just to see what the rest of the world thought, and it opens up with the fact that bushfires in Australia are frequently occurring events during the hotter months of the year. Large areas of land are ravaged every year by bushfires. That’s the Australian experience."

[i-need-a-martini]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

you missed the bit where he complaimed about the swearing? 

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I think you missed the bit where she asked if he thought, like his fearless leader Abbott, that climate change was "c.r.a.p."?

She was specifically and intentionally referencing the word that Abbott used to describe climate change.

[lakeland27]

oh , its in wiki.. thats alright then. who wrote the wiki page ?