Pay up and ignore the irony | The Daily Telegraph

IF YOU'RE trying to sell a tax that even its paid supporters admit will hurt ordinary families, should your number-one salesman be someone who is already rich and will receive $720,000 in taxes to spread a pro-tax message?

A couple of months ago, author and dinosaur-bone specialist Tim Flannery told a Sydney audience that "within this century, the concept of the strong Gaia will actually become physically manifest.

"This planet, this Gaia, will have acquired a brain and a nervous system that will make it act as a living animal, as a living organism."