Greens MPs

I think Liberal Backbencher Chris Pearce may have done us all a big favour by taking the petrol price populism just that little bit too far this morning.

He went out on a limb calling for his own party to double its ridiculous 5c fuel excise cut to 10c and promptly got smacked down by members of his own party as well as others.

As the team at Hansard are struggling valiantly to catch up on the huge quantity of transcribing work coming out of Senate Estimates, it's going to be a little while before we're up to date here on what's been happening, but I thought I'd post a few key climate and oil-related transcripts now.

I've been a fan of First Dog on the Moon's since Crikey started running his work some time ago. Off the wall genius that it is sometimes hard to comprehend, sometimes incredibly moving, often ROFL.

While the battle of petrol price populism between the old parties drags on, Christine plugged away once again last night at her favourite Senate Estimates sparring partner, ABARE.