You know something is rotten....

...when your federal environment minister says something like this:

"What we need to do as a world is keep mining coal."

- Ian Campbell - Australian Federal Minister for the Environment

John Howard should give Ian Campbell a new portfolio. Perhaps Minister for Fossil Fuels would be a better title than Minister for the Environment.

Campbell was responding to a recent court decision that ruled that new coal mines would be required to include information in their environmental impact statement about the amount of CO2 released by the coal that they mine, as usual he came out with all guns firing to support big business.