We discuss bad rocks, the Award for Services to Homophobia, and try to figure out what on earth the Labor Party is up to.
We’re on fire
Adelaide had a massive bushfire south of the city, described as like a firestorm or a volcano.
Two-year-old packs bad rocks.
Meanwhile in Melbourne, on Monday a mean and menacing “tip fire” managed to motivate 17 municipalities to move a “major alert” across most media.
In good news, South Australia met the entirety of it’s power demand with solar...
We discuss bad rocks, the Award for Services to Homophobia, and try to figure out what on earth the Labor Party is up to.
We’re on fire
- Adelaide had a massive bushfire south of the city, described as like a firestorm or a volcano.
- Two-year-old packs bad rocks.
- Meanwhile in Melbourne, on Monday a mean and menacing “tip fire” managed to motivate 17 municipalities to move a “major alert” across most media.
- In good news, South Australia met the entirety of it’s power demand with solar for a few hours.
Order of Australia
- Margaret Court, outrageous homophobe and anti-gay activist was given an Australia Day honor.
- Shoutout to the many Australians who are returning their Order of Australia honors: Dr Clara Tuck Meng Soo (AO for her LGBTIQ+ advocacy), Dr Rodney Syme (AO for his work on dying with dignity & human rights campaigning), Alistair Macrae (AO for religious work).
- Shoutout too to Journalist Kerry O’Brien for rejecting the award this year.
- Who did take their award? Malcom Turnbull, for his services toward marriage equality.
Musical chair party
- The Labor party has reshuffled their shadow cabinet, replacing Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy. It was Mark Bulter, now it’s Chris Bowen.
- Mark Butler was fairly solid on Climate Change, despite being a Labor party suit.
- Labor are pursuing a “small target strategy” for the next election, not revealing any plans.
- Labor sees climate change as an “economic portfolio”.
- Joe Biden is actually doing good things for the climate? John Kerry, Biden’s new climate envoy makes allusions to Australia’s bushfires as a reason to act on climate.
Joel Fitzgibbon
- Climate denier Joel Fitzgibbon is still pushing Labor to refuse action on climate change.
- He was the shadow resources minister, but quit to spend more time building support within the right-wing faction of the Labor party.
- On Radio National, Fitzgibbon called Mark Butler “over-enthusiastic” about climate change.
- Labor leader Anthony Albanese said Joel Fitzgibbon’s comments were “wrong”.
- The Iron Law of Institutions states that “The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself”.
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