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 24, 2019
But here’s the most disturbing thing. Denialists – led by powerful politicians and business leaders – have won the day. By clouding the debate – by badgering and bullying credible scientists and those who respect them – they have prevented any meaningful action on slowing the rate of global warming. If it wasn’t so serious you could smile at the irony. Those people who hate change more than anything else, those people who deal with the horrifying prospect of global warming by pretending it doesn’t exist, have successfully prevented efforts to stop one of the greatest disruptions confronting humanity. Those people. They’ve certainly earned their place in the hell to come.
Gary Linnell
December 18, 2019
Corbyn was a victim of the most vicious execution by the reactionary pro-billionaire and millionaire establishment media in British political history. It's not him they hate, it's us.
John Wight
December 15, 2019
Almost all churches are now calling for stronger action on the climate emergency. The standout exception is Hillsong, the PM’s ACC [Australian Christian Churches] and other Pentecostal groups. The theology that underpins their apathy, especially concerning the end times, is no longer simply heretical, it is dangerous.
James Boyce
December 8, 2019
Glorified underachieving, proclaiming falsehoods as truths, and the derision of actual knowledge are banes on our society. The world is made objectively worse by every anti-science element present within it.
Ethan Siegel
December 1, 2019
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
“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 27, 2019
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 25, 2019
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 24, 2019
Have you noticed if you rob a bank you go to jail, if a bank robs you they get a bonus.
