Not Good Enough

56 — Hogwhistling

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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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