Not Good Enough

108 — Manchoofian Candidate

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Australia's largest coal power plant is shutting down early, Scott Morrison is good at diplomacy, and Grace Tame is cool.

 

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  • Scott Morrison, welding expert.
Good news!
  • The biggest coal power plant in Australia is shutting 7 years early!
  • They specifically avoided telling energy minister Angus Taylor about the plans.
  • The Australian government has fought hard to keep fossil fuel plants spewing in the past.
  • Angus Taylor is pissy about it.
  • Of course, because the government refuses to consider any kind of transition, it’s the workers who lose.
  • It’s not all good news… the mostly-Labor state governments are spending millions to prop up coal power plants.
    • Demanding forgiveness
    • Scott Morrison used the commemoration address for Kevin Rudd’s apology to Indigenous people to tell them they should forgive settlers.
  • As The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria say, “get in the bin”.
    • Secretly working for China
    • Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton are going hard on their “Labor is secretly working for China” narrative.
  • The head of ASIO is now doing the media rounds saying “please don’t”.
  • Labor MPs having been going off chops on TikTok.
  • Samantha Maiden writes for news.com.au that Anthony Albonese had spoken a line of Mandarin at a Chinese trade association function.
    • Grace Tame is cool
    • The Daily Mail published a photo of former Australian of the Year with a giant BONG.
  • Tame released a great open letter eviscerating the media who tried to shit-sheet her.
  • Duncan Storrar went on Q&A questioning welfare policies, and had his life dragged through the mud in response.
  • Weed is a normal, popular thing in Australia.
  • Liberal MP Dave Sharma posted that he’s “sure there’s a photo of me like that”, but has consistently voted for drug testing welfare recipients.
  • Meanwhile, almost 70 thousand australians were arrested for weed possession.
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    • Pay the Rent! There’s a way to actually make reparations.
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