I watched Penny Wong on the 7:30 report defending the government's emissions trading
scheme against the criticism, made here and elsewhere, that initiatives such as the government's home insulation scheme will have no effect except to reduce the price of permits and therefore the costs faced by large emitters.
In his lengthy piece, Stetzer offers a forensic examination of Patterson's record detailing his intolerance of
criticism along with a series indiscretions, including crude public comments about a 16 - year - old girl,
scheming against the appointment of David Platt as new president of SBC's International Mission Board and his connection with Paul Pressler, who is now facing a lawsuit for sexual abuse allegations.