Not Good Enough

25 — Nationalise the government

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With climate disasters looming, we pick apart the Labor party's anaemic response. Then we chat about ideological cuts to the ABC and the right-wing media's take on Victorian Covid spikes.
 
Climate backslides
  • Labour party leader Anthony Albonese has indicated he is willing to give up on pushing for climate action from the Liberals.
  • Chevron’s carbon capture project Gorgon… didn’t work.
  • Lang was right about Gorgons though.
  • A National Audit Office report concludes that the Morrison government has failed it’s duty to protect the environment.
  • 80% of federal environmental approvals were non-compliant with regulations or contained errors.
  • Australia’s Reserve Bank has warned that inaction on climate change will cause GDP to drop 25% by 2100.
  • The Government has cut funding from renewable energy research at CSIRO.
  • …while the ABC makes cuts to the national emergency emergency broadcasting that was essential to saving lives during the 2019-20 bushfires.
    • Shorts in the arctic
    • Temperatures reached 38° degrees in the Arctic this week, the highest ever recorded.
  • Warming poles means more extreme weather all over the world.
    • Cutting the news
    • The ABC has cut 250 jobs, and the flagship news bulletin, after losing almost a billion in funding since 2014.
  • ABC Executives are still taking multi-million-dollar salaries and payouts.
  • Scott Morrison insists that there are no cuts.
  • ABC management is moving to sell their main headquarters… then rent it back?
    • Talking about distance
    • Victoria is experiencing a second spike in Covid infections.
  • The Victorian government’s crisis communication subcontractor was only asked to use languages other than English on Monday.
  • The conservative media has been desperately trying to push a “BLM Bump” theory to case increases (unsupported by the facts).
  • Now the conservative media wants to place the blame on immigrant families, with articles like “Diversity and death”.
  • The COVIDSafe app has 6 million downloads, has been used to detect zero cases.
    • Actions
    • Join the call to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14.
  • Wear a dang mask when you go to the shops.
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