Quote Originally Posted by RoundEye
5 of Australia's top government officials have resigned over it
Please don't misrepresent Australian politics to support your conspiracy theories.

Tony Abbott, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Smith and Senators Nick Minchin and Eric Abetz are not "top government officials", they are not even members of the party that currently forms the federal government.

They are members of the opposition and their threats to resign from the shadow ministry had more to do with an internal struggle for leadership of the Liberal/National coalition than it did the details of the government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme.

As a result, in the last few days Australia's "flat earthers" have taken control of the opposition party by forcing a leadership spill that replaced Malcolm Turnbill with Tony Abbott (aka the mad monk) as leader of the opposition by a single vote.

Leading commentators on Australian federal politics expect this move will keep the Liberal/National coalition firmly in opposition for at least the next decade.