The Liar from the Shire, caught out again
In May 2016, when Scott Morrison was Treasurer, the National Aerial Firefighting Centre called for a “national large air-tanker” fleet to confront a growing bushfire […]
Politics
Mother Nature is Pushing Back
If there is a positive to draw from what is happening to us this Australian summer, it is that for climate deniers, this is, thus […]
The baggage they have lugged from one year to the next means 2020 will be a hard slog (part 1)
It is of course usually impossible to predict just how a government is likely to perform one year to the next. However, this government given […]
Climate Bullying – A Deviant Behaviour
During and after every cyclone, flood and fire, the main push is to tell us that we are resilient. I’m sick and tired of being […]
Do the smoky hokey
Scott Morrison is trying desperately hard to find the right language to reassure Australians that he believes climate change is “real” but that he won’t […]
Australia’s record-breaking start to the New Year
At 10am, Canberra was again the city with the worst air quality in the world. Same as yesterday. Australia recorded its hottest day on record […]
Australia Burns: Fireworks, Bush Fires and Denial
As 2020 approached, the sense that the barbarians were not only at the gates but had breached the walls of indifference had come to the […]
“Let them watch fireworks”: Gladys Antoinette, Sydney 2019
The sickening irony of letting off millions of exploding flames into a city sky already thickened with the smoke of bushfires that have surrounded Sydney for weeks, and […]
A dangerously dysfunctional state of decay
“The Prime Minister is testing the theory that the best way to resolve a crisis is to be as far away from it as possible,” […]
2020 How to Kill Propaganda with Three Blows
And So This Is Christmas A number of tweets on Christmas Day summed up the culture of division that has now seeped so insidiously it […]
The stitching-up of Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg.
So while we sit on our arses and fiddle with our fingers a brave son of Australia is about to be thrown to the wolves. […]
Lucy, you are a waste of space
No doubt like many of you, I received a Christmas email and card in the post from my local member, Lucy Wicks. She chose a […]
More Rays of Winter Sunshine in Syria?
By Denis Bright Intrigues Beyond the Christmas Cheer Join me with the resources available from accredited block quotes to come to terms with the situation […]
This is not normal, Mr Morrison.
The nation heaves a sigh of relief as Hawaiian Airlines HA451, an Airbus carrying a Daggy Dad from Central Casting, Trump fan-boy and fellow crypto-fascist, […]
Stop panicking, no crisis here
Whilst there may be some truth in asserting that “the direct connection to any single fire event” and climate change “is not a credible suggestion”, […]