Green Gillard Government waste your money

Sid Maher, reporting in the Australian, writes:

Kid's play: ABC show to help sell climate goals

SHE grows awesome tomatoes and has an orange tractor. And now dirtgirl, the lead character in the popular children's television program dirtgirlworld, has been enlisted to the climate change fight by a Gillard government struggling to convince her viewers' parents of the merits of the carbon tax package.

Senate estimates was told yesterday the ABC show had been awarded a $150,000 grant "to reach currently disengaged families through childhood activities focused on reducing energy use".

This is further abuse of our children - see ABUSE of Children.

The Australian also reports that other recipients of the warm (or warming) benevolence of the government include Greencross Australia - $200,000