Australia has made a deal with the devil and the devil is coal. Its like we’ve harvested a bumper crop of opium poppies and the economists are applauding the high price of herion and telling us how much richer we’ll all be (ugh!). It may be a radical view now, but I am utterly convinced this is how we will view this dark period in Australia’s history in … oh, around 2020.

P.S. Its Gittins with an 'i'

Hmmm - I could have sworn it was Gittens - my tendency to quickly scan news items these days is doing terrible things to my spelling...