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This very self-explanatory graph (thanks to Graham Readfearn, The Guardian) is something that Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor and current Prime Minister Morrision would prefer you didn't see. For the sake of the environment and our children's futures, hopefully, by this time next week, it won't be Taylor making [CLICK TO READ MORE]
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION ISSUES IN THE COMMUNITY IS ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE – WHY AREN’T THE MAJOR PARTIES LISTENING? When dealing with climate change issues, one leader is blissfully ignorant and pretending not to be a climate change denier, and the other [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Does Morrison even understand hydrogen technology as a renewable energy source? Hydrogen hubs are being touted as the next good thing in the renewable energy industry, but mostly only in Australia. This weekend, Morrison has promised 2 new hydrogen hubs for Western Australia, which would seem to be yet [CLICK TO READ MORE]
The long awaited introduction of legislation for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission (CIC) has again been stalled, or perhaps a better description is stymied as a majority in the government have “prevented or hindered the progress” of the bill or in fact any discussion. The government has never wanted an [CLICK TO READ MORE]
It becomes tedious when the same bloke is in the news almost every day because he's said or done something to upset yet more people. Unfortunately that is the case with our Prime Minister Morrison and this time he's really TRUMPED it! Not in response to the ugly scenes, [CLICK TO READ MORE]
From Michelle Gratten ABC Online News 12-Nov-21 ... Sean Kelly, columnist and former staffer for Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, writes in his just-published The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison, that the PM, "never feels, in himself, insincere or untruthful, because he always means exactly what he says; it [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Morrison has backed a Senate inquiry into the ABC’s handling of complaints. The enquiry was instigated by Liberal senator Andrew Bragg, possibly at the behest of a disgruntled Fox News after the ABC decided not to act on any of Fox’s complaints about the Four Corners program about Fox News. [CLICK TO READ MORE]
It’s a poor reflection on the knowledge that Scott Morrison has on the climate crisis, and if Angus Taylor has any more clues as to what the problem is, he’s certainly not letting on. After scorning most of the developed world with his half-baked ideas at COP26 Morrison has arrived [CLICK TO READ MORE]