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This "heat wave" you're bleating about is called SUMMER in the Southern Hemisphere.

You know--when the Earth shifts on itx axis and the southern part of the planet is closer to the sun than the northern part (where we live in the Northern Hemisphere it is winter).

It is SUPPOSED TO BE HOT in Australia in the SUMMER, dumbass.

Dumb ass, it is spring in Australia! Summer begins at the winter solstice. Ever finish grade school?

Tell that to the Schoolies celebrating the END OF SCHOOL in Australia, fuckface.

Summer: December to February

This means that the Australian Christmas takes place at the height of summer. It also means that the mid-year break for students happens in winter. The end of year break for students is commonly known as the 'summer holidays', or the 'Christmas holidays'.

Tell that to the Schoolies celebrating the END OF SCHOOL in Australia, fuckface.

Australian weather and the seasons - Australia's Culture Portal

Well, with record breaking heat, of course they take advantage of it. Wouldn't you?

Those are college kids? And they all have their clothes on? How things have degraded since the '60s.

Yes, in some parts of Australia, (an area larger than our own lower 48) there has been a summer heat wave. In other parts of Australia, the temps are currently below the norms.

And in areas like Sydney, which are experiencing warmer than average temps, those temps are projected to drop well below normal this week. So utilizing the same selective example, Old Rocks will report back to this thread on Thursday and declare a terrible cold spell during Australia's summer - right Old Rocks?

And was it not the warmers who were crying about how "weather" is not "climate" and that the consecutive years of colder than "normal" temps were not evidence that there was not global warming? It would appear your selective use of weather data is as selective as your use of truth regarding this issue.

Your tone grows increasingly strident - you are desperate. The global warming house of cards is falling down about you...

VOTERS could go to the polls early next year after the Federal Government's plan to cut greenhouse gases was foiled in the Senate.

The threat of an early election came as Malcolm Turnbull's leadership appeared doomed with Joe Hockey preparing to run as a "consensus" leader.

As senior Liberal MPs moved to tear down Mr Turnbull's battered leadership, the Senate frustrated efforts by the Government to pass its carbon reduction scheme.

Coalition senators joined ranks with the Greens to ensure the Government left Canberra empty-handed last night. The parliamentary stand-off provoked a fierce response from Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who said she was "deeply, deeply disappointed" by the Senate's blocking tactic.

Well behind in the polls - and bitterly divided over climate change - the Coalition faces a possible double dissolution election early next year unless it backs down.

We are determined to deliver the carbon pollution reduction scheme," Ms Gillard said.

Senior Liberal figures want the complex Bill sent to a Senate committee, which would not report until February. The Herald Sun believes the Government has sought legal advice on its ability to call an early election in the event the legislation is not voted on next week.

With the Liberal Party going into meltdown, Mr Hockey was considering whether to accept the party's push for him to be leader.

The affable Sydney MP is being courted by senior Right-wing figures, who believe he is the best chance of healing a bitterly divided Liberal Party.

But Mr Hockey has three children under five - and is carefully weighing taking over.

A leadership vote is expected next week after 10 Liberals - including Tony Abbott and Tony Smith - issued a written request for a spill of positions at 9am on Monday.

Mr Turnbull said he would call a party-room meeting for next Tuesday. He spent much of Friday speaking to key supporters in his Sydney office.

But his day got even worse when he incurred the wrath of a woman after he jumped a taxi queue. The woman made her anger clear when he went straight to the front of the taxi queue, where she had patiently waited for a cab.

Earlier, the Opposition Leader insisted he would not fall on his sword.

"I will not step down. I'll stay leader until the party room removes me as leader," he said.

"I will not take a backward step, there's too much at stake.

"It's just not the credibility of the party."

Privately, most senior Liberal figures concede that Mr Turnbull's days are numbered.

Most Liberal MPs contacted by the Herald Sun believe Mr Hockey, who has been in Parliament for 15 years, will emerge as a compromise candidate by Monday.

But the Rudd Government last night showed it would go for the jugular if - as expected - Mr Hockey takes over what many believe is a poisoned chalice.