Tim Flannery, Australian of the Year

Gosh, wasn't everyone surprised when Tim Flannery was chosen as Australian of the Year?! Look, said the journos, Howard has to shake hands with Flannery... How embarrassing!

Why is that embarrassing?

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Well, say the journos, Flannery is a staunch conservationist. He attacks the government for not signing the Kyoto agreement. He's a greenie, through and through. Directly opposed to all that Howard wants and does.

Or is he.

Flannery is a conservationist. We're heading for disaster, he shouts. Protect the environment, he calls. The government has failed us, he cries.

What shall we do? What should we do? What can we do? cry the eager listeners.

We must go for nuclear power!

says the Australian of the Year.

What? Nuclear power?! Yes, nuclear power. But that's exactly what Howard wants the government to do... against the good sense of every thinking environmentalist...

And now we can see why Flannery is Australian of the Year...

He's a "conservationist". He sees disaster just around the corner. He attacks the government -- on topics that have been thoroughly thrashed in the past. So he's a popular conservationist.

More importantly -- he supports nuclear power. Look! says the government, Flannery attacks us (ha ha) so he obviously (again, ha ha) is not "one of us". Yet Flannery supports nuclear power. So it must be the right thing to do!

Right.

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