Always in a hurry. One feature of this federal government is that it is always in a hurry. There is no patience to wait until everything is in order before making an announcement. Don’t wait until the bureaucratic niceties are completed. Get it out there and get it out quick appears to be the motto.

And the result of all this haste tends to be negative rather than positive. The “deal” with Malaysia is but the latest example of how a policy that seemed like a good idea at the time turns bad before it is implemented.

Now Treasurer Wayne Swan has joined the hurrying brigade. He’s off to the National Press Club today to release new Treasury modelling on the impact of introducing a carbon price. Apparently Mr Swan thinks this will be good news of the kind that helps stem the tide of unfavourable reporting in the News Limited newspapers.

Yet by releasing his document before making it available to the so-called multi-party climate change committee, the Treasurer has angered those committee members whose support is needed if there ever is to be a tax on carbon. Independent MP Tony Windsor has told Fairfax “I’m not happy” the Treasury modelling was released publicly before the committee saw it. “If they want a phantom process they can do that on their own,” he said. Greens senator Christine Milne declared it “an act of bad faith”.

And it is not as if this deliberate slighting of those the Government needs as allies is going to have any impact on the tabloid press coverage. The campaign against Labor will continue whatever the Treasury predictions of the economic impact are.

When will Wayne Swan and Prime Minister Julia Gillard realise that appeasement does not work?

Still appeasing in Brisbane. The state Labor Government in Queensland is similarly in awe of a Murdoch tabloid. The Courier Mail in recent times has been on one of those law-and-order kicks demanding that “sex fiends” be tracked by global positioning systems after being released from prison terms.

Despite such offenders having half the recidivism rate of other types of former prisoners and no evidence that GPS on leg bands will actually help stop re-offending anway, Premier Anna Bligh yesterday gave in to the paper’s campaign.

Discovering political correctness. My goodness me! The Sydney Daily Telegraph momentarily discovered a form of political correctness on its website this morning. The offending word? Niggas.

Tyler, The Creator, front man for the group Odd Future, used it on a Twitter from Brisbane where he was appearing. The Tele decided it was not fit to use on its website’s home page but relented when it came to the story itself inside.

The disappearing bustards. The Great Indian Bustard is facing extinction! The latest edition of the IUCN Red List for Birds, (not yet available on the website) reports that as few as 250 of the birds – that stand a metre tall and weigh up to 15kg – survive.

The BBC quotes Jean-Christophe Vie, deputy director of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Global Species Programme saying “In the space of a year another 13 bird species have moved into the threatened categories.”

In all, 189 species are now considered to be Critically Endangered, including the Great Indian bustard.

The bustard was once widespread across the grasslands of India and Pakistan. But now its range is restricted to small isolated fragments, with its last stronghold in Rajasthan.

Odds on no interest rate change keep shortening. The final Crikey Interest Rate Indicator for June shows that the markets are very convinced that the Reserve Bank will not change its official rate this afternoon.