Australian Politics

December 24, 2019

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For the hapless energy minister [Angus Taylor] had managed in Madrid the one success of his ministerial career to date and that was to discredit our nation in the eyes of the world by being in cahoots with such colleagues as a nation led by medieval butchers, Saudi Arabia, and Russia, a nation led by a latter-day vivisector, exactly the sort of pariah states any democratic country feels proud to have as allies.

Richard Flanagan

December 24, 2019

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Morrison’s Pentecostal faith teaches that the end of days is signalled by a time of fire, flood and famine, known as the Tribulation. This is a wonderful time for the elect, who ascend to heaven in the Rapture. If Morrison is genuine in such beliefs, is he in any way a fit person to lead our country at this time of crisis that his religion sees as a joyous moment? Either he is sincere in his faith or he is sincere in his oath to office, but he cannot be both. Which is it, Prime Minister?

Richard Flanagan

December 18, 2019

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Where the bloody hell are you?

By admin | Australian Politics | 6 Comments

Back in 2009, Australia suffered its worst bushfire disaster when, in Victoria, 173 people were killed, 414 injured, and over a million wild and domesticated animals were killed and nearly…

December 15, 2019

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Murdoch ‘experts’ furious

By admin | Australian Politics, Environment | No Comments

As I mentioned a few days ago, the Liberal Party in New South Wales now seems a bit confused about climate change, with the state Environment Minister, Matt Kean, clearly…

December 1, 2019

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It has started

By admin | Australian Politics, Environment | 2 Comments

The targets to which many nations signed up at the 2015 Paris Climate Change meeting were designed to keep the rise in global average temperature to below 2°C, with a…

November 27, 2019

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In Tasmania, the Liberal government intends to legislate sentences of up to 21 years – more than many get for murder – for environmental protest, legislation typical of the new climate of authoritarianism that has flourished under Morrison. As Australia burns, what we are witnessing nationally is no more or less than the criminalisation of democracy in defence of the coal and gas industries.

Richard Flanagan

November 27, 2019

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“Accepting the science” no longer means believing in climate change, it means accepting that catastrophic events are on their way unless we act pretty much immediately. We can ignore this if we like, go on deluding ourselves that politics can be discussed the way it used to be. But if we do, there will be consequences, and nobody will be able to protect us from them.

Sean Kelly

November 25, 2019

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In Tasmania, the Liberal government intends to legislate sentences of up to 21 years – more than many get for murder – for environmental protest, legislation typical of the new climate of authoritarianism that has flourished under Morrison. As Australia burns, what we are witnessing nationally is no more or less than the criminalisation of democracy in defence of the coal and gas industries.

Richard Flanagan

November 24, 2019

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Many political commentators tend to view Morrison as some political genius, the winner of the unwinnable election. But history may judge him differently: a Brezhnevian figure; the last of the dinosaurs, presiding over an era of stagnation at the head of a dying political class imprisoned within and believing its own vast raft of lies as the world lived a fundamentally different reality of economic decay, environmental pillage and social breakdown.

Richard Flanagan

November 23, 2019

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Emerson’s tribe

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Rarely have I seen an article in which the point is so widely missed, as in the essay from Craig Emerson. He starts off with the statement that ‘tribalism is…

Where the bloody hell are you?

Murdoch ‘experts’ furious

It has started

Emerson’s tribe

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