11/24/14, "Attention America: your windbag president is pushing Australia China’s way," Australia Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt
"This is more like it-and Barack Obama could be further punished for his pathetic politicking by Australia now joining China’s regional infrastructure bank:
(The Australian, subscription): "TRADE and Investment Minister Andrew Robb ... has sent Barack Obama a sharp return-fire message: that Australia expects to be treated with respect-not insulted— and that the President’s remarks in Brisbane were wrong, misinformed and unnecessary…
The Robb remarks are both an honest expression of sentiment in much of the Abbott cabinet and a useful message to the Obama White House about the President’s gratuitous intervention in Australian politics against the Abbott government…
Robb told Sky News’s Australian Agenda program yesterday he was “surprised” by Obama’s speech, he believed the President was “not informed” about Australia’s climate change policy, that his “content was wrong”, that Australia’s 2020 targets were “roughly comparable” to those of the US and other nations, that his speech gave “no sense” to government efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef and that his remarks were “misinformed” and “unnecessary”. In short, Robb dumped all over Obama…
Mr Robb also intensified pressure within the government to alter its position and join the China regional infrastructure bank, playing down the security factors that led cabinet’s National Security Committee to reject membership at this time.
The Obama administration lobbied the Abbott government heavily to stay aloof from the bank, with Ms Bishop winning a cabinet struggle against the Treasurer, Joe Hockey, who is keen for Australia to participate…
Robb said the Chinese had told him the bank would operate on “world-class governance standards"… and that Australia would be a “big beneficiary” of its operations.""
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11/24/14, "Major blowback from Obama's insult to Australia at the G20 in Brisbane," American Thinker, Thomas Lifson
"Barack Obama has managed to damage the formerly close relationship between the United States and Australia, a cornerstone of our presence in the Pacific. Unless you read American Thinker, you probably don’t know about the fuss created when President Obama stuck his nose in Australian domestic politics and insulted that ally during his closing remarks at the G20 Summit in Brisbane last week:
Federal Coalition members are ... angry at the US President’s public intervention in the Australian climate change debate at the G20 last Saturday, when most of his remarks in the summit’s closed session on energy, where the issue was discussed, were devoted to US gas supplies and production that have been boosted by coal-seam gas and shale oil…The reverberations are now being felt. Australia’s most widely read poltical blogger, columnist, and television commentator, Andrew Bolt, writes in the Melbourne Herald-Sun:"...
Senior Queensland government MPs are so angry at Mr Obama’s remarks about the Great Barrier Reef and his attack on coal production in a resources state that they are considering a formal complaint.
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Added: Obama's speech to college students at the University of Queensland in Brisbane promoting the $1 billion a day imaginary global warming industry was the result of a last minute request he made of his Australian hosts:
"Despite repeated Australian requests, White House officials refused to provide a text of the speech to their Australian hosts in advance, and did not provide a summary of what would be contained in the speech."...
11/21/14, "Obama ignored Embassy's warning's on climate change speech," The Weekend Australian, Greg Sheridan
"Barack Obama defied the advice of his embassy in Canberra to deliver a stinging attack on the Abbott government’s climate policies in Brisbane last weekend.
The US embassy, under the leadership of ambassador John Berry, advised the President, through his senior staff, not to couch his climate change comments in a way that would be seen as disobliging to the Abbott government, sources have revealed.
When The Weekend Australian put this information to the US embassy, a spokesman said: “As is the case with all presidential speeches, President Obama's remarks at the University of Queensland in Brisbane were prepared by the White House.
It is normal practice when the US President makes an overseas visit that the ambassador in the country he is visiting is consulted about the contents of major speeches. It is unusual, though not unprecedented, for an embassy’s advice to be ignored.
The Obama speech in Brisbane was added to the President’s program at the last minute. During his extensive talks with Tony Abbott in Beijing at APEC,
Mr. Obama did not make any mention of a desire to make a speech,
or of any of the contentious climate change content of the speech.
Only in Naypyidaw, in Myanmar, immediately prior to the leaders travelling to Brisbane for the G20 summit, did the US party demand that the President make a speech
and that it be to an audience of young people
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At the speech, the President did not acknowledge the presence of Governor-General Peter Cosgrove."...
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Some excerpts above from The Australian are from FreeRepublic.com
11/21/14, "Obama ignored Embassy's warning's on climate change speech," The Weekend Australian, Greg Sheridan
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Ed. note: The Australian is subscription. Part of the Australian story above was copied on the GWPF site. I found a few additional excerpts from the Australian article at Free Republic. What they had I copied above. The two portions above with grey background are screenshots from the article posted on GWPF. For whatever reason, GWPF is among sites along with PamelaGeller.com, DemocratsAgainstUNAgenda21.com from which I can't copy and paste. One is free to imagine why someone would want to limit public exposure to these websites. via WUWT, via Climate Depot
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