Dr Dennis Jensen MP

I am unsettled by the censorship of free and open debate by the Labor Party in the current Carbon Tax debate.

Yesterday I was prevented from tabling documents during the current Carbon Tax debate by the Minister on duty, Kate Ellis.

I approached Minister Ellis, about tabling some of the scientific evidence I was about to use in my speech. The Minister refused without reason, my simple request for honest and evidence based parliamentary debate.

It seems the Labor Party is unwilling to allow frank and open debate on the science of climate change, which underpins the whole framework of this legislation

I currently hold the highest scientific qualifications of all MPs and Senators and was hoping to shed some scientific light on this debate. This method of censorship and ignorance goes a long way to explaining why so many Australians distrust the Prime Minister and her government. I believe history will condemn this debate.

We really have reached a low point in the 43rd parliament.

I am also dissatisfied by the way the scientific debate on climate change has run in this country. It’s important we ask ourselves, what is driving this current green push towards a wealth redistributing tax scheme. Why are the views of people like Al Gore, a failed scientist and Tim Flannery, a geologist, given more weight than those of Professor Ian Plimer or Professor Bob Carter?

Group think and vested interest is rampant in this current generation of climate scientists. They have failed their scientific forefathers by not critically analysing the data and theories presented to them. Time will show that they bastardised their positions as scientists and sold their souls to a movement which fails the test of scientific method.”

Our current group of politicians and scientists are standing on the neck of science and slowly choking it